Monday, January 19, 2009

Battle of Lone Pine

The Battle of Lone Pine, which took place during the Gallipoli campaign from the fourth to the tenth of August, was the only successful Australian attack against the Turkish trenches within the original perimeter of the ANZAC battlefield, and yet it was merely a diversion to draw attention from the main assaults of 6 August against the Sari Bair peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.

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