To the Dardanelles! The Entente Allies successfully capture their objective and plant their flags in this boy's 1915 war game, as they did not in life, neither in the naval campaign, nor in the invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula.

Aux Dardanelles; Victoire; Vive les Alliés



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Sunday, August 15, 1915

"The English and Indian troops, operating from Suvla Bay, meanwhile, had advanced on the flank of Sari Bahr. The Irish troops stormed and captured Chocolate Hill on the night of August 8th, but failed to make connections with the Australians who were being pressed on the opposite slopes.

Three days passed before the Suvla Bay forces succeeded in coming to the aid of the Australians. The delay was fatal, for the Turks had rallied in great force and driven back the Australians from all the positions they had gained on Sari Bahr. Had the Suvla Bay troops been moved more quickly, the Turkish stronghold might have been taken and the way opened to the forts on the Dardanelles.

On August 15th, the same Irish troops that had taken Chocolate Hill succeeded in rushing Dublin Hill in a hand-to-hand fight with the Turks."

Quotation Context

The last major Allied offensive to bring the Gallipoli campaign to a victorious conclusion had failed. The opening of a new front at Suvla Bay, the bolstering of the force at Anzac Cove, all in an attempt to drive across the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Dardanelles, the gateway to Constantinople, had come to more death on both sides.

Source

King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 184, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922

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1915-08-15, 1915, August, Chocolate Hill, Dublin Hill, Irish troops, Suvla Bay, Sari Bahr