ies that it was hopeless to expect success along that line,
except at a price that they could ill afford to pay, and that would
have a terribly depressing effect upon public opinion at home.

Admiral de Robeck and his British "bulldogs" were called off to await
the coming of Sir Ian Hamilton and his mixed expeditionary force. This
force, while the 12-and 15-inch guns of the Anglo-French fleet had
been vainly battering the Dardanelles forts, had returned to
Alexandria, and, under the careful supervision of Sir Ian Hamilton and
General d'Amade, had been reshipped aboard the great transport fleet.

At this point there appears to have arisen a serious misunderstanding
between Great Britain and France as to the exact number of troops to
be supplied by each. Although the true facts have not yet come to
light, it is believed that General Joffre emphatically refused to
detach any of the French troops from the western front. The force that
France eventually contributed to the allied army at the Dardanelles
consisted of units not at that time in view for service in northern
France. These numbered a small detachment of Fusiliers Marines, a
section of the Armee Coloniale, and the Foreign Legion, a force made
up of volunteers from all over the world, enlisted for service
anywhere, and generally assigned to a post of unusual danger.

Great Britain was, therefore, under the necessity of providing the
bulk of the troops.

The British authorities did not make the mistake of throwing raw
troops into the initial struggle at the Dardanelles. The backbone of
the force supplied to General Sir Ian Hamilton was the Twenty-ninth
Division of Regulars, made up largely of the hardiest of England's
youth--the north countrymen. It comprised the Eighty-sixth Brigade of
Infantry--Second Royal Fusiliers, First Lancashire Fusiliers, First
Royal Munster Fusiliers, and the First Royal Dublin Fusiliers; the
Eighty-seventh Brigade--Second South Wales Borderers, First King's Own
Scottish Borderers, First Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and First
Border Regiment; the Eighty-eighth Brigade--Second Hampshires, Fourth
Worcesters, First Essex, and the Fifth Royal Scots, the latter a
Territorial battalion. Attached to this force of infantry was a
squadron of the Surrey Yeomanry and two batteries of the Fourth
Mountain Brigade, a Highland artillery unit.

To the command of these regular troops, Major General Hunter-Weston
was appointed. This officer had been thr