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The Australians and Indians Carrying a Turkish Position in Spite of Wire Entanglements
The Graphic - These sketches
give a good idea of the obsacles which the Gallipoli peninsula
offers to military operations - obstacles repeatadly referred
to by Sir Ian Hamilton in his recent report. The percipitious
fall of the hills, he says, recleded landing except at a
few narrow gullies, while the beaches were so well defended
by works and guns and "barded wire beyond belief,"
that our operations "involved difficultis for which
no precedent was forthcoming in military history, except
possibly in the sinister lengends of Xerxes." 17/07/1915
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