Battle of Gallipoli

Since the beginning of the war the geography of Gallipoli completely favored the Turks.  Gallipoli is completely covered by mountains, so when the soldiers from the Allied Forces arrived through the beaches the Turks began to fire downwards, and there was no place for the soldiers to hide. However, in some beaches there were some low sand banks in which they were able to hide. Going into the war the soldiers had no idea what they were getting into, since the maps that had been previously made by the British were inaccurate, they were missing many slopes and edges, they also lacked the Turkish defenses such as the location of the barbed wire and the trenches (Look at the maps below). They expected to find a very flat land with a couple of mountains; however, the peninsula was nothing like that.

Gallipoli is made of limestone and sand, and as a result it is very dry so wells were scare. Because it was so dry there wasn’t enough water for all the soldiers. Many of the wells only contained salt water, which was undrinkable.

(source: news2youmedia)