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Description: of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had commissioned the plans to invade the Dardanelles. He talks about this campaign vividly in his memoirs. The Gallipoli campaign gave an important boost to the career of Mustafa Kemal, who was at that time a little-known army commander, but was later promoted to Pasha. Kemal halted and eventually repelled the Allied advance, exceeding his authority and contravening orders to do so. His famous speech "I do not command you to ...