Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was an English allied leader, and when England feared war with Germany after the Agadir incident in July 1911, he was made the first lord of admiralty and assigned to prepare the British fleet to immediately react for an outbreak of war. Churchill thrived to reorganise the navy; he built a reasonable staff, acquired fast battleships and developed the Royal Naval Air Service. When World War 1 eventually broke out three years later, Churchill’s navy became England’s major weapon against Germany.
During the war the Western Front turned into a stalemate, neither rival could outmanoeuvre its opponent, resulting in harmful and ineffective attacks on well-built defences. Winston Churchill and Lord Kitchener, both Allies leaders, sourced their maps to find a way around the impasse; eventually the Dardanelles Strait from the Mediterranean to Istanbul (Constantinople) grabbed their attention. A successful attack on this area created a sea lane to the Russians, enabling a base to attack Central Powers and distract the enemy’s attention from the Western Front. The campaign was a disaster; not only was it poorly prepared, but dreadfully performed, the naval attempt to force passage up Dardanelles was unsuccessful. The flotilla retreated after heavy fire from Turkish guns and mines across the channel. After this disastrous effort, a landing on Gallipoli was attempted in order to secure shores and silence guns, but again the attempt failed miserably. The reasons for the disappointing defeat were due to new amphibious operations, which lead to poor communications, troop deployments and supply. As well as this the Turks had situated themselves on high terrain easily firing artillery and machine gun fire down towards the Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French and British troops below.
During the war the Western Front turned into a stalemate, neither rival could outmanoeuvre its opponent, resulting in harmful and ineffective attacks on well-built defences. Winston Churchill and Lord Kitchener, both Allies leaders, sourced their maps to find a way around the impasse; eventually the Dardanelles Strait from the Mediterranean to Istanbul (Constantinople) grabbed their attention. A successful attack on this area created a sea lane to the Russians, enabling a base to attack Central Powers and distract the enemy’s attention from the Western Front. The campaign was a disaster; not only was it poorly prepared, but dreadfully performed, the naval attempt to force passage up Dardanelles was unsuccessful. The flotilla retreated after heavy fire from Turkish guns and mines across the channel. After this disastrous effort, a landing on Gallipoli was attempted in order to secure shores and silence guns, but again the attempt failed miserably. The reasons for the disappointing defeat were due to new amphibious operations, which lead to poor communications, troop deployments and supply. As well as this the Turks had situated themselves on high terrain easily firing artillery and machine gun fire down towards the Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French and British troops below.
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