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Sep 12, 2026

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Pilgrimage Paths: Faith, Commerce, and Communities in Medieval Britain

Sep 12 · 1 Mention

speaker_0UNKNOWN
8:13
That operation, which began with a daring naval bombardment and a surprise land assault by British and ANZAC forces on a seemingly weak coastline, ultimately failed because the Ottoman defenders had turned the beachheads into deadly machine gun fortresses well ahead of any Allied expectation.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
8:31
The cost was staggering; in just the initial landing at Suvla Bay, some four, five hundred soldiers lost their lives or were wounded before even touching dry land.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
8:42
Beyond the immediate casualty figures, Gallipoli’s failure also exposed a gap in intelligence.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
8:48
Commanders had underestimated not only the Ottomans’ capacity to hold the line but also their ability to anticipate a seaborne assault after the naval strike.
Explaining History

Explaining History

The Fall of Baghdad 1917

Sep 3 · 1 Mention

Nick ShepleyHOST
9:22
In August, the British appointed a new commander to the MEF.
Nick ShepleyHOST
9:26
Major General Sir Stanley Maude had been wounded in France and was the last man off the beach at Suvla Bay in the Suvla Bay evacuation at the end of the Gallipoli campaign.
Nick ShepleyHOST
9:38
An aggressive commander, Maude was determined to take the offensive on the Tigris Front.
Nick ShepleyHOST
9:44
Across the summer and autumn of 1916, he managed to build up a formidable force in Mesopotamia.
On War

On War

In the Line of Battle-Walter Wood

Sep 3 · 4 Mentions

Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
4:34
Chapter One: How Trooper Potts Won the VC on Burnt Hill.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
4:39
As part of the operations in Gallipoli, it was decided to bombard and attack a very strongly fortified Turkish position near Suvla Bay, a sector stretching from Hill Seventy to Hill One Twelve.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
4:52
The frontal attack was a desperate enterprise, as the Turks had dug themselves in up to the neck in two lines of trenches of exceptional strength.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
5:01
The attack was made on the afternoon of August twenty-first, nineteen fifteen, after a bombardment by battleships and heavy land batteries.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
5:38
Finally, the trooper, in the extraordinary manner which he now describes, saved his comrade's life.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
5:45
Trooper Potts is only twenty-two years old and is the first yeoman to win the most coveted of all distinctions.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
5:52
I saw a good deal of the Turks before we came to grips with them near Suvla Bay.
Timothy FergusonNARRATOR
5:57
I had gone out to Egypt with my regiment, the Berkshire Yeomanry, and for about four months we were doing garrison work and escort work for Turks who had been captured in Gallipoli and the Dardanelles and sent as prisoners of war to Egypt.

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