“The Graphic” Map of the Dardanelles Operations, 1915 (G.F. Morrell) Battering at the Gate of Constantinople ...
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“The Graphic” Map of the Dardanelles Operations, 1915 (G.F. Morrell)

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Battering at the Gate of Constantinople ...

Battering at the Gate of Constantinople: the Progress of the Allied Naval and Military Forces at the Dardanelles

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‘This pictorial presentation is specially designed to illustrate the joint naval and military operations in the Gallipoli Peninsula, and to enable the Public to follow the movements of the Allies in their progress to Constantinople. Mr. Morrell’s drawing illustrates what Sir Ian Hamilton calls the three dominating features in the section – (1) Saribair Mountains, running up in a succession of almost perpendicular escarpments to 970 feet, and consisting of a network of ravines covered with thick jungle; (2) Kilid Bahr Plateau, which rises to a height of 700 feet, to cover the forts of the Narrows from an attack from the Aegean; and (3) Achi Baba, a hill 600 feet in height, dominating at long field-gun range the toe of the peninsula. Gallipoli is an ideal place to defend, and the Turks have made the most of their opportunities, the whole peninsula being covered into a network of trenches and small redoubts, well supplied with guns of all calibres and protected by elaborate entaglements. Here is being fought out what Mr. Churchill has well called “the last and finest crusade” and slowly but surely the heroic troops of France and Great Britain are overcoming all the obstacles with which both man and nature have beset the road to Constantinople.’

Εκστρατεία Καλλίπολης 1914-16 / Gallipoli Campaign 1914-16