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  • Battle of Sari Bair
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  • The Gallipoli Campaign had raged on two fronts, Anzac and Helles, for three months since the invasion of 25 April 1915. With the Anzac landing a tense stalemate, the Allies had attempted to carry the offensive on the Helles battlefield at enormous cost for little gain. In August, the British command proposed a new operation to reinvigorate the campaign by capturing the Sari Bair ridge, the high ground that dominated the middle of the peninsula above the Anzac landing.
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Partof
  • the Gallipoli Campaign in the Middle Eastern Theatre of the First World War
Date
  • --08-21
Commander
  • Liman von Sanders
  • Mustafa Kemal
  • Ian Hamilton
Casualties
  • 12000
  • Anzac: 12,000+
  • Suvla: 8,155
  • Total: 20,155+
Result
  • Ottoman victory
Place
  • Gallipoli peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Conflict
  • Battle of Sari Bair
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  • The Gallipoli Campaign had raged on two fronts, Anzac and Helles, for three months since the invasion of 25 April 1915. With the Anzac landing a tense stalemate, the Allies had attempted to carry the offensive on the Helles battlefield at enormous cost for little gain. In August, the British command proposed a new operation to reinvigorate the campaign by capturing the Sari Bair ridge, the high ground that dominated the middle of the peninsula above the Anzac landing. The main operation started on 6 August with a fresh landing north of Anzac at Suvla Bay in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps mounting an attack north into the rugged country alongside the Sari Bair range with the aim of capturing the high ground and linking with the Suvla landing. At Helles, the British and French were now to remain largely on the defensive.
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