Maj-gen Sir C. E. Callwell

Dardanelles Maj-gen Sir C. E. Callwell

The contest for the control of the Dardanelles in 1915 brought about a struggle by sea and land which was in the main conducted quite independently of occurrences in other theatres of the Great War. That being so, it can in a military and naval sense be treated as a distinct incident in the world-wide disturbance. It constituted a campaign by itself. I ts course, nevertheless, was appreciably affected by belligerent events elsewhere, by the military .situation in Western Europe on various dates by the progress of the conflict on the western and south-eastern borders of Eussia, for instance, by acute strategical developments in Serbia, and even by martial proceedings in the vicinity of the Nile Delta and in Mesopotamia. Such influence as the conditions in distant regions exerted over the fight for the Straits took, however, almost entirely the form of diverting to othei; fields military and naval resources which, but for this, might have been profitably employed in and about the Gallipoli Peninsula. t Itwas the Allies who especially suffered in this respect, and they suffered particularly on land. For, lack of troops and munitions was unquestionably one cause of their failure to wrest domination of the Hellespont out of the hands of the Turk. But the inadequacy of the means in respect to men and munitions placed at his disposal, which so shackled Sir I. Hamilton, were primarily if not indeed wholly due to the fact that men and munitions were urgently needed in other theatres of war and especially in France andF
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