Map showing the territorial gains (darker shades) of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece, primarily at the expense of Turkey, agreed in the Treaty of Bucharest following the Second Balkan War. Despite its gains, Bulgaria also lost territory to both Romania and Turkey.
The Balkan States According to the Treaty of Bucharest; Acquisitions of New Territory shown by darker shades
". . . Kitchener left London to see for himself what was happening at the Dardanelles and in the Aegean. By now his colleagues had come to regard Kitchener as an empty legend, an old warhorse needing the peace of green pastures. But as this frail Bucephalus scented battle some of his former energy returned. A couple of days on Gallipoli, a hurried trip to Salonika to consult Sarrail and Mahon, across to Mudros to umpire a contest in policy between the naval and military authorities, and down to the Piraeus to seek out King Constantine in his palace in Athens . . ."
The Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula was a costly failure for the Allies, and had come to a stalemate after the August invasion at Suvla Bay that only added a third failed front to those opened in April, 1915. Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener toured the Aegean front in November, the Dardanelles and the newly opened Salonica front in Greece. Greek King Constantine favored Germany, viewed the Allied landing at Salonica as an invasion of his neutral country, and threatened to inter the Allied troops. Maurice Sarrail commanded the French troops trying to break through the Bulgarians to aid Serbia. Bucephalus was the horse of Alexander the Great.
The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, page 47, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965
1915-11-16, 1915, November, Kitchener
