![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Allies' aim was to break through to Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - and, with the use of naval power, force the Ottoman Empire out of the war. The nine-month battle saw German-backed Ottoman forces fiercely and successfully resist the Allies - who included Australian, British, French, Irish, Newfoundland, New Zealand and Nepalese Gurkha troops - as they sought to take and hold the strategic peninsula on the western edge of Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was beset by problems from the beginning, with soldiers landing at the wrong cove ![]()
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