Apart from the operations on the Western Front British troops
figured in many historic battles in other theatres of war. In the
ill-fated expedition to Gallipoli the soldiers of the Empire showed
an undaunted spirit and came near achieving what was regarded by many
as an impossible task. Much the same spirit under even more trying
circumstances was displayed in Mesopotamia and other parts of the
Far East, as is evidenced by the recapture of Kut and the taking of
Baghdad. German influence in far waters was destroyed by the seizure of
German New Guinea and Samoa; while a great blow to German colonization
schemes was dealt by the conquest of East Africa and the Cameroons.