Battle of Gallipoli

By: Shubham Upadhyay

Where and When?

Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey

February 19, 1915 – January 6, 1916

Who fought? Allied Powers

British Empire France

Central Powers Ottoman Empire Germany Austria-Hungary

Navel Attacks

First attack on February 19 Main attack on March 18

Ottoman empire claimed victory

Ground Attacks

Led by Sir Hamilton – British Army Cape Halles

Lost 20,000 men Sulva Bay

Fought in blazing heat

Aftermath

Allies 220,000

Central Powers 253,000

Casualties

PoemIt happens on a Monday, at 11:20 A.M.,

as tower guards eat sandwiches

and seagulls drift by on the Tigris River.

Prisoners tilt their heads to the west

though burlap sacks and duct tape blind them.

The sound reverberates down concertina coils

the way piano wire thrums when given slack.

And it happens like this, on a blue day of sun,

when Private Miller pulls the trigger

to take brass and fire into his mouth:

the sound lifts the birds up off the water,

a mongoose pauses under the orange trees,

and nothing can stop it now, no matter what

blur of motion surrounds him, no matter what voices

crackle over the radio in static confusion,

because if only for this moment the earth is stilled,

and Private Miller has found what low hush there is

down in the eucalyptus shade, there by the river.

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