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Gallipoli. (1981 film) Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during World War I. They are sent to the Gallipoli peninsula in the ...
Mar 6, 2023 · Gallipoli, Campaign and Battle of. From March 1915 to January 1916, French and British Commonwealth forces fought against the German-advised Ottoman army for control of the Dardanelles. The resulting Central Powers victory contributed to the collapse of the Russian war effort, and the fall of Great Britain’s coalition government in late 1916.
It was a few minutes after dawn on April 25, 1915, and the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers was preparing to land on W Beach on the southern end of the Gallipoli Peninsula. “It might ...
Anzac Cove map. Map of the Anzac area on Gallipoli from April to December 1915. This map shows the general topography inland from Anzac Cove and North Beach, an area that was approximately 8km north to south and 6km west to east. Kabatepe is the most southern and western point on the map. Hill 60 is the most northern point.
This map shows the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula, now part of modern-day Türkiye, in April 1915. In 1915, the Allies launched a plan to force the Dardanelles Strait, attack the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (Istanbul), and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war. Initial attempts by British and French warships to clear the ...
In a war infamous for its military disasters, there were few greater debacles than Gallipoli. Ill-conceived, poorly-planned and dogged by misfortune, the off...
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Gallipoli ( Italian: [ɡalˈliːpoli]; Salentino: Caḍḍìpuli [kaɖˈɖiːpʊlɪ]; Ancient Greek: Καλλίπολις, romanized : Kallípolis, lit. 'Beautiful City') is a southern Italian town and comune in the province of Lecce, in Apulia. In 2014, it had a population of 31,862 [2] and is one of the towns where the Greek dialect Griko is ...
