British Navy." It is true that we lost two capital ships, from mines, in
the early part of the campaign, and I think, in all, two others, from
torpedoes, during the campaign. Such loss is not very serious in eleven
months of naval war. For the campaign was a naval war, it depended
utterly and solely upon the power of the Navy. By our Navy we went there
and were kept there, and by our Navy we came away. During the nine
months of our hold on the Peninsula over three hundred thousand men were
brought by the Navy from places three, four, or even six thousand miles
away. During the operations some half of these were removed by our Navy,
as sick and wounded, to ports from eight hundred to three thousand miles
away. Every day, for eleven months, ships of our Navy moved up and down
the Gallipoli coast bombarding the Turk positions. Every day during the
operations our Navy kept our armies in food, drink and supplies. Every
day, in all that time, if weather permitted, ships of our Navy cruised
in the Narrows and off Constantinople, and the seaplanes of our Navy
raided and scouted within the Turk lines. If there had been, I will not
say, any defeat of, but any check to the Navy, we could not have begun
the campaign or continued it. Every moment of those eleven months of war
was an illustration of the silent and unceasing victory of our Navy's
power. As Sir Ian Hamilton has put it "the Navy was our father and our
mother."
"Still," our enemies say, "you did not win the Peninsula." We did not;
and some day, when truth will walk clear-eyed, it will be known why we
did not. Until then, let our enemies say this: "They did not win, but
they came across three thousand miles of sea, a little army without
reserves and short of munitions, a band of brothers, not half of them
half-trained, and nearly all of them new to war. They came to what we
said was an impregnable fort on which our veterans of war and massacre
had laboured for two months, and by sheer naked manhood they beat us,
and drove us out of it. Then rallying, but without reserves, they beat
us again and drove us further. Then rallying once more, but still
without reserves, they beat us again, this time to our knees. Then, had
they had reserves, they would have conquered, but by God's pity they had
none. Then, after a lapse of time, when we were men again, they had
reserves, and they hit us a staggering blow, which needed but a push to
end us, but God again had pity. After that our God was indeed pitiful,
for England made no further thrust, and they went away."
Even so was wisdom proven blind,
So courage failed, so strength was chained,
Even so the gods, whose seeing mind
Is not as ours, ordained.
Lollingdon,
June 29, 1916.
THE END
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Salt Water Poems and Ballads
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The Locked Chest and The Sweeps of Ninety-Eight:
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Multitude and Solitude
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The Tragedy of Nan
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