HY 357 Lecture 10: Day 10
12 Sep 2016
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Alternative strategies, while we wait: gallipoli, 1915. Russians come to churchill in their time in need. British army is trying to go from a small all volunteer force to a large all volunteer source. Guaranteed you wont be thrown in with a bunch of strangers. Britain doesn"t have a lot of surplus to ship off the russia. British artillery and shells are not going to russia. Russian wheat, no net to transport it to the black sea coast. Churchill was desperate to take the war somewhere besides the western front. Don"t have the army to do this. Opens the black see and the dardanelles: the first plan: naval assault on the dardanelles. Let"s try something other than the western front. Churchill says: fine, we"ll do it with the navy. Churchill has this idea that british war ships will go against the. Dardanelles to open the seas up to traffic.
