Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right.

Schulter an Schulter

Untrennbar vereint

in Freud und in Leid!'



Shoulder to shoulder

Inseparably united

in joy and in sorrow!

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Monday, July 12, 1915

"June 4: Allied attack in the centre. Gain 250—500 yards on a one-mile front. Allies' casualties 6,500, Turkish 9,000.

June 21 and following days: French attack on the right. Gain of about 200 yards. French casualties 2,500, Turkish 6,000.

June 28: British attack on the left. Gain of half of mile. British casualties 3,800, Turkish unknown.

July 5: Turkish attack along the whole line. Nothing gained. Casualties, Turks 16,0000, Allies negligible.

July 12/13: Allied attack on a one-mile front. Gain of 400 yards. Casualties, Allies 4,000, Turks 10,000."

Quotation Context

A footnote from Alan Moorehead's classic account of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaign summarizing the engagements of June and July, 1915 at Cape Helles at the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Totals of his casualty numbers for the two months are 16,800 Allied, 41,000 Turkish, and a net Allied gain of possibly one mile on a one mile front. The Turkish defenders continued to hold the high ground.

Source

Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead, page 208, copyright © 1956 by Alan Moorehead, publisher: Perennial Classics 2002 (HarperCollins Publications 1956), publication date: 2002 (1956)

Tags

1915-07-13, 1915-07-12, 1915, July, Gallipoli, Gallipoli Peninsula, Cape Helles