Yup, Gallipoli, an unmitigated disaster!
The sea at your immediate rear, hills in front, snipers everywhere, bad water and too little of it, 100 billion flies...FUBAR
D*mned shame some idiots charge with executing Churchill’s (actually brilliant) plan completely screwed it up. The Turkish sniper and machine gun positions on the cliffs were supposed to be subjected to heavy naval bombardment before and during the landings, but someone in the Admiralty got in a snit with the General Staff, and the moronic martinet in charge of the ground operation said go because his watch said it was time, even though the barrage hadn’t started.
>Yup, Gallipoli, an unmitigated disaster!
>The sea at your immediate rear,
Churchill’s plan was for a Naval only attack and even this was bungled by the military which seemed unable to plan and execute anything competently. WWI has many shocking examples of British military incometence.