Earlier this week at the Gallipoli Peninsula, an area along the northeast coast of the Ottoman Empire, blood from Allied soldiers was spilled everywhere. The Gallipoli Campaign was the Allied forces attempt to control the sea route form Europe to Russia in the ongoing world war. Fighting began with a failed naval attack by the British and the French ships on the Dardanelles Straits in the late winter of 1915 and continued with a major land invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25. The land invasion involved British and French troops as well as divisions of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Based on accounts from one of our reporters, who is currently located in the region near the battlegrounds, a very common fighting tactic that the two sides used was trench war fighting. Trenches are long narrow ditches that allowed soldiers to hide and seek protection. The trenches were far from perfect and many soldiers died from snipers’ bullets. In addition, these trenches had many bad living conditions, the worst of which included rat infestation. Rats were actually eating away at soldiers and their food, often leaving the soldiers starving. Also, at times, the temperatures in the trenches were too cold or too hot to bare, which also led to many deaths. Finally, after many hard fought months and a significant amount of casualties, the Allied forces decided to evacuate the Gallipoli Peninsula, ending the cruel battle that is a part of this harsh war. To this point in the developing war, the Allied defeat at Gallipoli has to be considered one of the greatest Ottoman