TODAY IN HISTORY: Gallipoli disaster ends with an improbably successful evacuation

January 9 The final troops are evacuated from Gallipoli on January 9, 1916. Winston Churchill's bold campaign to capture the capital of the Ottoman Empire had ended in a bloody fiasco, but the evacuation was a stunning success. The British military feared as many as 30,000 casualties out of the 35,000 soldiers on the peninsula.

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