The DardanellesHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 361 Seiten |
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11th Division 25th of April 29th Division 32nd Brigade actually advance Ægean Allies Anzac Cove army arrived ashore assailants attack August offensive Australian battalions batteries battleships beetles Birdwood's boats bombardment British Bulair campaign carried Chocolate Hill Chunuk Bair coast command Commander-in-Chief considerable Dardanelles defences Dere despatch detachments difficulties disembarkation effect embarking enemy enemy's evacuation Expeditionary Force favourable fighting flank fleet front Fusiliers Gaba Tepe Gallipoli Peninsula Gulf of Saros Gully Beach guns Hamilton Helles high ground hostile howitzers Imbros infantry IXth Corps Kuchuk Anafarta Kum Kale Lala Baba landing landing-place Lemnos lighters Liman von Sanders Maidos Marshal Liman miles moreover Mudros naval night north of Gaba offensive operations Osmanlis Ottoman owing position proved reinforcements ridge River Clyde Sari Bair secured Sedd-el-Bahr ships shore situation Straits Suvla Bay tactical tion transports trenches troops Turkish Turks W Beach warships withdrawal
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Seite 69 - ... ending in the outskirts of the village. A third transverse entanglement, joining these two, ran up the hill near the eastern end of the beach, and almost at right angles to it. Above the upper entanglement the ground was scored with the enemy's trenches, in one of which four pom-poms were...
Seite 47 - You know my view, that the Dardanelles must be forced, and that if large military operations on the Gallipoli peninsula by your troops are necessary to clear the way, those operations must be undertaken, after careful consideration of the local defences, and must be carried through.
Seite 239 - An advance from the positions we held could not be regarded as a reasonable military operation to expect. (c) Even had we been able to make an advance in the Peninsula, our position would not have been ameliorated to any marked degree, and an advance on Constantinople was quite out of the question. (d) Since we could not hope to achieve any purpose by remaining on the Peninsula, the appalling cost to the nation involved in consequence of embarking on an Overseas Expedition with no base available...
Seite 83 - The beach on which the landing was actually effected is a very narrow strip of sand, about 1,000 yards in length, bounded on the north and the south by two small promontories. At its southern extremity a deep ravine, with exceedingly steep, scrub-clad sides, runs inland in a north-easterly direction. Near the northern end of the beach a small but steep gully runs up into the hills at right angles to the shore. Between the ravine and the gully the whole of the beach is backed by the seaward face of...
Seite 36 - The employment of military forces on any large scale for land operations at this juncture is only contemplated in the event of the Fleet failing to get through after every effort has been exhausted. 2. Before any serious undertaking is carried out in the Gallipoli Peninsula all the British Military forces detailed for the expedition should be assembled, so that their full weight can be thrown in.
Seite 1 - The Admiralty should prepare for a naval expedition in February to bombard and take the Gallipoli peninsula, with Constantinople as its objective.
Seite 59 - On either flank of the beach the ground rises precipitously, but, in the centre, a number of sand dunes afford a more gradual access to the ridge overlooking the sea. Much time and ingenuity had been employed by the Turks in turning this landing-place into a death trap. Close to the water's edge a broad wire entanglement extended the whole length of the shore and a supplementary barbed network lay concealed under the surface of the sea in the shallows. Land mines and sea mines had been laid. The...
Seite 42 - I have described— a theatre strongly garrisoned throughout, and prepared for any such attempt — involved difficulties for which no precedent was forthcoming in military history except possibly in the sinister legends of Xerxes. The beaches were either so well defended by works and guns or else so restricted by nature...
Seite 239 - The position occupied by our troops presented a military situation unique in history. The mere fringe of the coast line had been secured. The beaches and piers, upon which they were dependent for all requirements in personnel and material, were exposed to registered and observed artillery fire.
Seite 290 - ... were very slender in the month of January ; it was indeed a contingency that had to be reckoned with that we might very probably be visited by a spell of bad weather which would cut us off completely from the Peninsula for a fortnight or perhaps for even longer. Supplies, ammunition, and material to a certain degree had therefore to be left to the last moment for fear of the isolation of the garrison at any moment when the evacuation might be in progress. I decided therefore that our aim should...