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El 18 de marzo de 1915, las fuerzas francesas, británicas, australianas y neozelandesas, apremiadas por Winston Churchill, iniciaron su primer intento de desembarco en la península de Galípoli, pero el ataque fue un fracaso, ya que tres de los barcos aliados fueron hundidos por lo que más tarde descubrieron que eran minas.
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As 1914 staggered to its bloody conclusion, the Great War dissolved into a horrific grind along the 500 battle-scarred miles of the Western Front. Britain and France had suffered nearly a million casualties in the wars first four months alone, and the deadly stalemate in the trenches increasingly frustrated Britains 40-year-old First Lord of the Ad...
Britains war cabinet backed the plan, which had been under consideration even before the Ottoman Empire joined the war. The first step would be an attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the northern side of the Dardanelles, an operation that Churchill, who now became the plans chief advocate, knew would be risky. The price to be paid in taking Gallip...
The British War Office, however, refused to send as many troops as he wished, but Churchill sent in the fleet anyway. The attack on Gallipoli began on the morning of February 19, 1915, with long-range bombardment of the peninsula by British and French battleships. Despite initial success, the attack stalled as the weather grew worse and Allied mine...
The invasion had been scuttled by incompetence and hesitancy by military commanders, but, fairly or unfairly, Churchill was the scapegoat. The Gallipoli disaster threw the government into crisis, and the Liberal prime minister was forced to bring the opposition Conservatives into a coalition government. As part of their agreement to share power, th...
Churchill, however, remained haunted by Gallipoli for decades. Remember the Dardanelles, his political opponents taunted when he stood up to speak in the House of Commons. When running for Parliament in 1923, hecklers called out, What about the Dardanelles? The British Bulldog embraced Gallipoli as a brilliant failure. The Dardanelles might have sa...
19 de feb. de 2020 · La batalla de Gallipoli supuso la muerte de casi medio millón de personas de ambos bandos, pero también un punto de inflexión y reflexión en la identidad nacional turca y australiana y el cese de Winston Churchill como Primer Lord Almirantazgo del imperio británico.
19 de feb. de 2020 · Winston Churchill en 1914 en uniforme como Lord del Almirantazgo. Gallipoli sería su gran fracaso en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Dominio público
15 de nov. de 2023 · Con el fin de revertir esta situación el primer lord del Almirantazgo Winston Churchill propuso el atrevido plan de abrirse paso por los Dardanelos y atacar Estambul, cuya toma privaría al enemigo de la mayor parte de su industria de guerra y a bien seguro sacaría a los turcos de la guerra.
It was a costly campaign for the Entente powers and the Ottoman Empire as well as for the sponsors of the expedition, especially the First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915), Winston Churchill. The campaign was considered a great Ottoman victory.
En Gran Bretaña, el principal defensor de esta estrategia fue Winston Churchill, un joven aristócrata que había sido nombrado Primer Lord del Almirantazgo antes de cumplir 37 años.
