What cause the failure of the Gallipoli campaign?

Answer 1

Strong Ottoman resistance, the 57th Infantry Regiment held on to the last man despite being out numbered and having limited ammunition

Lt Col Kefmel of the 19th inftry gave this famous order to his men

"I do not expect you to attack, I order you to die. In the time which passes until we die, other troops and commanders can come forward and take our places."

This is exactly what happened, the Ottomans holding very good defencive positions held up the allies long enough for reinforcements to arrive, the allied landing was also hampered by the heavy losses sustained which limited any immediate quick breakthroughs.

At W beach casualties were 60% and 90% for the forces on the SS River Clyde that disembarked 200 men at V beach - massacred 1 by 1 as they exited the transport.

Because the tenacity of the Turkish defence the advance was slower than what was hoped for. It also tired the men out and brought many divisions well under strength. The general staff did not realise this and hence the 1st Battle of Kirithia was doomed to failure before the outset.

The Battle generated into a attrition trench life warfare and despite much personal bravery by many of the ANZACs, British and French troops it was impossible to take the now reinforced Turkish positions and secure the forts that commanded access to the straights.

The final throw of the dice was the landing at Sulva bay whitch despite early sucess they did not exploit the lack of resistance and got bogged down in an attritional battle. Due to the low expectaions and teh causious nature of there commanding officer - who reportedly had a bath instead of Advancing from the landing beach.

Overall it failed because of poor leadership and planing as well as stif resitance from teh Ottoman defenders.

Answer 2

Poor planning on the part of the high command, who were old military types. They assumed all they had to do was throw men at the enemy and eventually the opposition would crumble. They planned on paper and never actually took consideration of the terrain, the health of their troops or how fiercely the enemy would fight for their positions.

Answer 3

When the ANZAC troops arrived in Turkey, they arrived on a hill in which they had to climb, but what they didn't know was the Turkish troops were above the hill

Not exactly true ^^^^

When ANZACs arrive at the shores, they were quite a large distance away from where they were actually supposed to land.

The land was against the ANZACs, meaning that the Turkish had mountains and terrain in their favour. (Practically shooting down on the ANZACS)

The battle was in a state of stalemate. No side was making any progress on battle field.

ANZACs had to make a move so then they decided to raid the enemy trenches. That was not a smart move because all the Turkish were well set up with their defences so they got their machine guns capable of shooting many bullets at once (quite new weaponry for that time) and just gunned down the ANZACs as soon as they got out of their own trenches to attack the Turkish.

Answer 4

the gallipoli campaign was not successfull because most of the young australians and newzealanders weren't really good at shooting and most of them died.

Answer 5

they went a mile to fast so the Turkish could see them

Answer 6

becasue of bad planning and amutar leadership

there was no co operatinon between the ground forces and navy

last the men were ill equipt and given bad rations

Answer 7

The Gallopoli campaign was not successful because the Turkish where already on Anzac Cove and were ready to attack.