The Battle of Çanakkale (1915) - Part 3

Upon the failure of the naval campaign, the Allies planned a continental operation and landed in the morning of April 25. Liman von Sanders, the German Cavalry General commanding our forces, assumed that the Allies would land on Saros and Kumkale. In accordance with this assumption, he located only one of the six divisionsat Seddülbahir, which turned out to be the real landing point of the Allies. He appointed one division as reserve troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kemali located two divisions at Saros and the remaining two on the Anatolian shore of the strait. His assumotions proved wrong. Seeing the Allies land on Maydos, Mustafa Kemal made a historically decisive move - he took the initiative and sent the 57th infantry regiment to charge back the emeny. For if the Allies had been able to seize Conbayırı, our defense system would have been severely damaged, which would end up in the occupation of Istanbul. The courcage of the Turkish soldier together with the detemination of Atatürk made the Allies' marching stop, adding on other page of honor or to our history.