Suvla Bay

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a wide, shallow cove, or bay, on the Ægean coast of the Gallipoli Peninsula, at which point large forces of Allied troops were landed on August 6, 1915, to attack the Turks, who were holding the Gallipoli Peninsula against a force which had already been landed some time previously. The battle preceding and following the landing of these re-enforcements proved disastrous to the Allied forces, under command of Sir Ian Hamilton, and has since been reckoned as one of the most serious blunders committed by the Allies during the World War. The object had been to take the Turkish forces by surprise , but this the nature of the country made impossible, as became obvious. After several days of heavy fighting the Allies were compelled to retire from the Suvla Bay region. SUVOROF - RYMNIKSKI, PETER ALEXIS VASSILIVICH , COUNT OF, PRINCE ITALISKI, a Russian military officer; born in Finland , Nov. 25, 1729; and in his 17th year entered the service as a common soldier. He served in the war against Sweden, in the Seven Years' War, in Poland, and , and against the Turks, and rose to be a General of Division in 1773. In 1783 he reduced the Kuban Tartars under the Russian yoke. In 1787, as chief in command , he conducted the defense of Kinburn to a successful issue; and in 1789 he gained the dignity of count by his great victory on the banks of the Rymnik, where the Austrian troops under the Prince of Saxe-Coburg were surrounded by 100,000 Turks. By his timely arrival with 10,000 Russians he not only rescued the Austrians, but occasioned the utter overthrow of the enemy. The next, and perhaps the most sanguinary of his actions, was the storming of Ismail in 1790 , which was followed by the indiscriminate massacre of 40,000 of the inhabitants of every age and both sexes. He was next employed against the kingdom of Poland, and conducted a campaign of which the partition of the country was the result , receiving a fieldmarshal's baton, and an estate. The last and most celebrated of his services was his campaign in Italy in 1799. He gained several brilliant victories at Piacenza, Novi, etc., drove the French from all the towns and fortresses of Upper Italy, and was rewarded with the title of Prince Italiski. But in consequence of a change in the plan of operations he passed the Alps; and the defeat of Korsakof at Zürich, together with the failure of the expected assistance from the Austrians, obliged him to retreat from Switzerland. On his recall to Russia preparations were made for his triumphal entry into St. Petersburg; but having incurred the displeasure of the Emperor Paul, the preparations were suspended. He died May 18, 1800.