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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