0 yards. Their attack was delivered with
tremendous power and was brilliantly successful. At one point,
however, where the French line linked up with the British, the Turks
discovered a weak spot. By noon about a third of a mile had been
gained over a front of four miles, but soon afterward the French began
to weaken and subsequently were compelled to retreat. This exposed the
right wing of the British, which was enfiladed by the Turkish riflemen
and machine gun batteries and suffered terrible losses. The
Collingwood battalion of the Royal Naval Reserve, according to Sir Ian
Hamilton, having gone forward in support when the right wing was hard
pressed, was practically wiped out.

The attack slackened in the afternoon and nightfall found almost all
the gains of the morning lost to the heavy Turkish counterattacks. So
exhausted were the British and French troops that it was impossible to
renew the battle on the following day.

On June 21, 1915, the French force fought probably its most successful
action since the landing. About noon of that day, the Second Division
stormed two lines of Turkish trenches and captured what had been
called the "Haricot" redoubt, a strong Turkish position which had
twice changed hands. On the right, the First Division was unable to
make corresponding progress until General Gouraud made a last
inspiring appeal. Before night the whole of the Turkish first line
trenches above Kereves Dere were in the hands of the French troops.
The cost had been terrible, no less than 2,500 soldiers of the
Republic falling in the assault. More important still, General Gouraud
was so seriously injured that he had to return to France. On the way
his right arm was amputated. He was succeeded in command of the French
Expeditionary force by General Bailloud.

A week of comparative inaction was followed by an action on the
British right, which became known as the battle of the Gully Ravine.
This was a successful attempt to capture the ground originally
included in Sir Ian Hamilton's instructions for the second day of the
Battle of the Landings, near Beach Y, where the Turks had maintained
themselves in force, on June 28, by a strong British force, including
the overworked Twenty-ninth Division, which at this time had but few
of the officers who commanded at the landing on April 25, 1915, the
156th Brigade of the Lowland Division, and the Indian Brigade. Several
of the Turkish trenches could be easily enfiladed from