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Peter Weir’s movie Gallipoli, starring a young Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, is based on the historical landing of Australian troops onto Turkish shores in 1915, in the area known as Gallipoli. The landing itself was one of the many strategies employed to distract the German forces from the Russian borders. The original idea was that allied ships would force their way into Constantinople. However, after three of the ships were destroyed and another three crippled, it was decided that they could not force their way in without first destroying the Turkish guns defending the shores. The Turkish forces have depleted their ammunition at this time and if the allied ships had sailed on they would have surely succeeded. Such is irony! However, the allied commanders were unaware of this and decided that an invasion at Gallipoli was the only answer. However, the landing was a failure, as the troops had only their endurance training in Egypt and did not understand the concepts of discipline and order. There were also miscalculated landing areas and so instead of landing in the relatively flat terrain, they were forced to climb practically vert