Qualla: Gallipoli Campaign https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gallipoli Campaign https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign Gallipoli Campaign: Introduction https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Agence Rol, Public domain. Half a million young men were killed or wounded on a strip of land you can drive across in twenty minutes. The Gallipoli campaign ran from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916, and by the time the last Allied soldier evacuated, roughly 250,000 casualties had been suffered on each side. Britain, France, and the Russian Empire wanted to force the Dardanelles, knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war, and open a supply route to a Russia that was already faltering. The Ottomans were defending their capital. Both sides believed they were defending civilization. Both sides sent people who, by and large, just wanted to live.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gallipoli Campaign: Why a Narrow Strait Mattered https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Zafer, Public domain. The Dardanelles is a thirty-eight-mile strait connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. Whoever held it controlled the only sea route between Russia's warm-water ports and the Western allies. By late 1914, the war on the Western Front had bogged into trenches, the Baltic w...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-why-a-narrow-strait-mattered.mp3 0:06 2 full Gallipoli Campaign: Twenty-Five Boys From Wagga Wagga https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Ernest Brooks, Public domain. On 25 April 1915, troops landed at five beaches on the southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula and one further north on the Aegean coast. The northern landing - on a narrow strip soon to be called Anzac Cove - was made by Australian and New Zealand soldiers under Lieutenant Gener...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-twenty-five-boys-from-wagga-wagga.mp3 0:06 3 full Gallipoli Campaign: Mehmetçik on the Ridge https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 4.0. Defending the ridges above Anzac Cove was the Ottoman 19th Division under Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kemal - the future Atatürk - who had argued from the start that the British would land at exactly this spot. When his 57th Infantry Regiment ran out of ammunition and had only bay...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-mehmet-ik-on-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Gallipoli Campaign: Eight Months in the Mud https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Ernest Brooks (1876–1957), official Admiralty photographer, Public domain. After the failed initial assaults at Cape Helles and Anzac Cove, the campaign settled into a stalemate that resembled the Western Front in miniature - trenches sometimes only meters apart, snipers, dysentery, summer heat that drove the temperature inside dugouts past 40°C. Major ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-eight-months-in-the-mud.mp3 0:06 5 full Gallipoli Campaign: The Withdrawal That Worked https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Julian Nyča, CC BY-SA 4.0. By December 1915, the Allied high command had accepted that Gallipoli could not be taken. The evacuation - paradoxically, the most successful operation of the entire campaign - was carried out in stages between 7 December 1915 and 9 January 1916. Self-firing rifles rigged with ca...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-the-withdrawal-that-worked.mp3 0:06 6 full Gallipoli Campaign: Two Nations Born on a Beach https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Catlemur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Gallipoli broke careers and built nations. Winston Churchill, blamed for the strategy, was forced out of the Admiralty and out of cabinet, beginning what he later called his wilderness years. Mustafa Kemal, who had emerged as the most effective Ottoman field commander, became a n...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/gallipoli-campaign-wp/sx4s-gallipoli-campaign-two-nations-born-on-a-beach.mp3 0:06 7 full Gallipoli Campaign: Johnnies and Mehmets https://qualla.com/gallipoli-campaign/ Photo credit Ellen Thompson from Brisbane, Australia, Public domain. Words attributed to Atatürk in 1934, addressed to the mothers of the Allied dead buried at Gallipoli, are inscribed at the Anzac Cove memorial today: "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives, you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in ...

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