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Large groups of Allied soldiers gather along the shore and hillsides at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula, with boats and piers visible in the water during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
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Large groups of Allied soldiers gather along the shore and hillsides at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula, with boats and piers visible in the water during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
World War I: Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula Allied troops lining the shore at "ANZAC Cove" on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The cove was named after the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) troops that were part of the Allied forces. The Dardanelles Campaign against the Turks was a bloody defeat for the Allies.

Anzac Cove is a small bay on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. It gained historical significance during World War I when Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops landed there on April 25, 1915, as part of the Dardanelles Campaign. The objective was to capture the strategic Dardanelles strait from the Ottoman Empire, which was allied with the Central Powers. Despite establishing a beachhead, the Allied forces could not achieve their objective and suffered heavy losses, leading to their withdrawal by December 1915. The landing at Anzac Cove is commemorated annually on ANZAC Day, April 25, in Australia and New Zealand, honoring those who served and died in various wars.1

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  2. World War I - Rival strategies and the Dardanelles campaign , 1915–16

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