[harpygoddess]

The visitor can not help but be struck by the stark, natural beauty of its steep, scrubby, deeply-gullied terrain and sadly moved by the remembrance of the tens of thousands of men on both sides who lost their lives there in a futile clash of empires - only a few miles across the "wine-dark sea" from the ruins of ancient Troy. Of that earlier struggle, Homer wrote in book XIII of the Iliad,

"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."

[rlmorel]

Terrible, just terrible battle. Horrifying.

[dfwgator]

“The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY

[crz]

If anyone wants to see the incompetent behavior of superior officers in a battle, this is one to study.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps

[BuffaloJack]

The Battle of Gallipoli saw young physicist Henry Moseley (age 27), who corrected Mendeleev version of the Periodic Table of the Elements, killed by a muslim sniper with a bullet through the head. Mendeleev’s arrangement of the elements in his periodic table was in order of increasing atomic mass. Mendeleev didn’t know that the atoms of each element contain a unique number of protons. Moseley’s arrangement (the one used today) is based on atomic number not mass.

[lurk]

Force landings are a roll of the dice. We had a rough time of it at Anzio.