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تاريخ الإسلام والأنبياء والصحابة
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تاريخ الإسلام والأنبياء والصحابة
ملحمة چناق قلعة (معركة غاليپولي)
315,000 Ottoman Empire soldiers defending the homeland and Caliphate — Allies sought to force the Dardanelles, capture Istanbul, and knock the Ottoman Empire out of WWI.
85,000–100,000 martyrs and wounded
568,000 Allied troops backed by the colossal Royal Navy dreadnought fleet
Over 250,000 Allied casualties; battleships HMS Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet sunk
On 18 March 1915, Ottoman coastal batteries and the brilliant mine-laying by minelayer Nusret sank three Allied super-dreadnoughts, repelling the naval breakthrough. When ground forces landed on the peninsula beaches, Ottoman soldiers fought with legendary valor in the trenches of Chunuk Bair and Anzac Cove, holding every foot of soil until the Allies evacuated in defeat.
The Nusret minelayer and Mecidiye fortresses sank the Allied fleet.
Hand-to-hand trench defense holding the commanding peaks.
Allied forces secretly evacuated in January 1916 having failed every single objective.
Prolonged WWI by two years, caused the fall of the British government under Asquith, triggered the Russian Revolution (by cutting off Russian sea supplies), and inspired Muslim anti-colonial resistance globally.
Official Ottoman military historical documentation of the Dardanelles campaign.
حصار الكوت العظيم (كوت العمارة)
General Townshend and over 13,000 British soldiers surrendered unconditionally to Halil Pasha after a 147-day siege; one of Britain's most humiliating military defeats.
فتح القسطنطينية المجيد (فتح الفتوح العثماني)
Broke the supposedly impregnable 1,100-year Theodosian Walls; ended the Byzantine Roman Empire; transformed Constantinople into the imperial capital Istanbul.
معركة جالديران الخالدة
Decisive Ottoman victory through disciplined firearms and artillery; established Ottoman control over Eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq.