Identifier: thegreatwar04alle (find matches)
Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s of Sir Ian Hamilton, three regular divi-sions of the British New Army and the infantry of twoTerritorial divisions had reached the eastern Mediterra-nean, while a mounted division awaited in Egypt thecommanders orders. The expeditionary force as thusaugmented must have been at least four times as large asthe entire British contingent engaged at any one time in theCrimean War. An entirely nev/ system of defensive works had nowbeen created by the Turks along the slopes of Achi Baba,capable of holding out even in case the Turkish right wereturned by the capture of Krithia. The situation was, there-fore, no longer propitious for the renewal of the offensivein the southern part of the peninsula and the commandersattention was turned to the possibilities further north.Kilid Bahr dominated the Narrows. The Anzac positionwas only about six miles from there, while the Allies south-ern front was about ten. Repeated attacks by the Turks onthe Anzac line showed that a sensitive portion of their
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The Campaign on the Gallipoli Peninsula 119 front was near the Anzac position. To the east and ratherto the left of the latter rises the Sari Bahr ridge crowned byKoja Chemen Tepe, known as Hill 305, from its height inmeters. Not far north of Anzac is Suvla Bay, with an ex-cellent and safe anchorage and protection from submarines;the wide, level shore there is recessed in the foothills of theAnafarta ridge. Sir Ian Hamiltons plan for the supreme effort com-prised a converging movement from the west against acentral section of the ridges that constitute the backboneof the peninsula and from this vantage-ground a drivestraight through to the Dardanelles. The new divisionswere to be landed at Suvla Bay, and from there and Anzacthe simultaneous dash for the summits was to be under-taken, while a squadron feinted at the head of Saros Gulfand a forcible attack in the south engaged the attention ofthe enemy. The inauguration of this great concertedaction was set for August 6th. The success o

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