Was Gallipoli A Success Or A Failure

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The Gallipoli Campaign was a campaign of World War 1, which was initiated by Winston Churchill in the hope that the Allied forces could gain control of the Gallipoli Peninsula. With control of the Dardanelles, the Allied forces would be able to reach Constantinople and be able to transport supplies to Russia, a British Empire ally (P.K.Macdougali, 2004). This campaign, although an important campaign in shaping Australian history, was considered a military failure. The reasons as to why it was such a catastrophe was due to the inadequate maps and the initial planning, which led to failures at the Landing and at the Battle of the Nek. The biggest reason as to why it was a failure was mostly due to miscalculations. It was such a failure that the