Battle of Scimitar Hill

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Battle of Scimitar Hill
Part of Gallipoli Campaign
Date 21 August 1915 Location Suvla, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
British Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Beauvoir De Lisle	Mustafa Kemal Bey
Strength
11th and 29th divisions (14,300 men)[1]	12th Division 9th Division (6 Battalions) 6th Division(Reserve, did not engage) [2]
Casualties and losses
5,300[1]	2,600[3]

The Battle of Scimitar Hill (Turkish: Yusufçuk Tepe Muharebesi, literally: Battle of the Dragonfly Hill) was the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. It was also the largest single-day attack ever mounted by the Allies at Gallipoli, involving three divisions. The purpose of the attack was to remove the immediate Ottoman threat from the exposed Suvla landing and to link with the ANZAC sectors to the south. Launched on 21 August 1915 to coincide with the simultaneous attack on Hill 60, it was a costly failure, in which the Turks were forced to use all their reserves in "severe and bloody fighting" far into the night, with some Turkish trenches lost and retaken twice.^[3]