article_snippet.sent: I’s most spectacular Allied failures.
article_snippet.sent: A far cry from the fateful morning of April 25 1915, when one of the bloodiest and most ill-conceived campaigns of the First World War kicked off, a campaign which almost brought to an end the career of the First World War main instigator, Winston Churchill, and which witnessed almost 400,000 casualties.
article_snippet.sent: The Allied plan was as brilliantly simple in conception as The Allied plan was hopeless in execution: secure the Straits and take Constantinople, giving access to the Black Sea to supply the Russians in order to free up a new line of attack on the Germans.
article_snippet.sent: The Allied plan would also pull in the Greeks and Bulgarians, ancient enemies of the Ottoman Turks, and hey presto, the stalemate of the Western Front would be suddenly transformed into a glorious victory from the East.
article_snippet.sent: Churchill, who was First Lord of the Admiralty, had underestimated the strength of the Turkish troops, under the command of modern Turkey’s founding father, Kemal Atatürk, and had overestimated the potency of his own superannuated fleet, which fell easy prey to the mines and coastal gun batteries.
article_snippet.sent: Churchill (left) had been a soldier, but in 1916 underestimated the Turkish  forces led by Atatürk (right)
article_snippet.sent: If the naval thrust was a failure, Churchill (left) attempt to consolidate on land was a calamity, and after nine months of blistering summer heat and frostbitten winter nights the ragbag army of dysentery-ridden men was evacuated the following December and January, and Churchill (left) was forced to resign Churchill (left) post.
article_snippet.sent: This is because Allied troops were unable to make much headway against the ferocious onslaught of Atatürk’s men.
highlights_snippet.sent: Allies sustained heavy loses, mown down by a better-equipped Turkish army .
  