ed down here quickly, and Every inch that was gained
             caused many casualties. Supplies where hard to come by and the heat of the hot summer
             made trench living conditions even more like hell than usual. The Allied evacuation of
             Gallipoli began on December 13, 1915.
             The land expeditionary force staff was put together of what was mostly
             inexperienced and old officers. Many of the field commanders had only seen the likes of
             a desk, and never seen battle. Like Sir Ian Hamilton, most of the officers were chosen by
             seniority and not by skill (Leckie 45). General Hamilton himself and most of his
             commanders knew next to nothing about the Gallipoli peninsula (Wren 156). General
             Hamilton as he was now called left England with no staff, a Turkish army manual from
             1912, faulty maps, and a tourist Guide to the area of Constantinople to plan the attack on
             Gallipoli (Wren 153). Information on the area around Gallipoli was so sketchy that the
             commanders did not even know if their was drinkable water. They had to scour Egypt at
             the last moment to find barrels for drinking water. When there was none the water they
             decided to bring only lasted a few weeks (Moyihan 155). The maps used to plan the
             landing showed flowing water ways in land just a few miles. From the lack of research
             and research materials, the commanders did not even learn that these water ways would
             always dry up in summer to late fall and early winter, and were therefore unnavigable
             (O'Shea 70). The planning mistakes made by the Allies seemed to doom the whole
             Clearing mines for the Navy was done by fishing trawlers from Northern Britain,
             and manned with civilian crews. These crews were inexperienced and scared, so they
             either missed mines, hit mines, or panicked and retreated at the sound of shells coming
             from the mobile Howitzers that the Germans had lent the Turks (Moynihan 155). The
             Allies then waited for a month a...