{"id":42299,"date":"2021-04-25T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=42299"},"modified":"2021-04-25T05:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T10:11:44","slug":"know-your-ww1-history-april-25-1915-wwi-allied-troops-land-in-gallipoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/25\/know-your-ww1-history-april-25-1915-wwi-allied-troops-land-in-gallipoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your WW1 History: April 25, 1915 \u2013 WWI Allied Troops Land in Gallipoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42301\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/anzac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"external-link reader-full-post__header-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/legallegacy.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/25\/april-25-1915-wwi-allied-troops-land-in-gallipoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">April 25, 1915 \u2013 WWI Allied Troops Land in Gallipoli<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Excellent overview of the Gallipoli campaign debacle.<\/h2>\n<h2>It is important to note that some historians have attempted to lay the blame of this military tragedy solely at Winston Churchill&#8217;s feet (who at the time was the Lord of the Admiralty) but this is not the case as the article states:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>Winston Churchill, Lord of the Admiralty, tried to argue for a combined attack by the army and navy; a purely naval attack would merely provide the Turkish artillery with an opportunity to make literal the concept of \u201cturkey shoot.\u201d But the War Minister, Lord Kitchener, declined to provide any troops for Churchill\u2019s navy; he felt they were needed in Europe. Thus Churchill was forced to do his best with the navy, and the inevitable disaster ensued.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Sidebar: The Australian TV series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3577058\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2\">Gallipoli (2015)<\/a> was really well done and I highly recommend it if you have not seen it.<\/h2>\n<h2>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, 1915 \u2013 WWI Allied Troops Land in Gallipoli &nbsp; Excellent overview of the Gallipoli campaign debacle. It is important to note that some historians have attempted to lay the blame of this military tragedy solely at Winston Churchill&#8217;s feet (who at the time was the Lord of the Admiralty) but this is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8187,475,478,479,6096,5961,6254,3545,8399],"tags":[9053,3947,4206,4679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}