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	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Ian Hamilton
		Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947) was Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey at Gallipoli.
		Appointed to his command of a force of 75,000 men on 12 March 1915 by Kitchener, Hamilton was tasked with seizing control of the Dardanelles Straits and with the capture of Constantinople.
		He was replaced by General Sir Charles Monro who, echoing Hamilton's belated recognition of the futility of the campaign, immediately recommended evacuation.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/hamilton.htm (383 words)

	Biography of Sir Ian Hamilton
		Ian Hamilton was the son of Christian and Maria Hamilton and was born in Corfu in 1853.
		Hamilton was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General of Musketry for the army in India, and continued to train the troops in his own model of rifle usage: the performance of the men in India so outstripped that at home that his techniques were adopted throughout from 1893.
		Ian and Jean adopted a son (Harry Knight, killed in action in WW2), and a daughter; he continued to write, was very active in charitable activities particularly for those supporting retired soldiers and also inaugurated many war memorials around the United Kingdom.
	www.1914-1918.net /hamilton-bio.htm (1576 words)

	First World War
		As regards Sir Ian Hamilton it is inevitable that the capabilities of a commander in war should be judged by the results he achieves, even though, if these results are disappointing, his failure may be due to causes for which he is only partially responsible.
		In April, 1915, Sir Ian Hamilton succeeded in landing his troops at the places which he had chosen: but the operations that were intended immediately to follow the landing were abruptly checked owing to a miscalculation of the strength of the Turkish defences and the fighting qualities of the Turkish troops.
		Though from time to time Sir Ian Hamilton represented the need of drafts, reinforcements, guns and munitions, which the Government found it impossible to supply, he was nevertheless always ready to renew the struggle with the resources at his disposal, and to the last was confident of success.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/transcripts/battles/dardanelles.htm (1680 words)

	Ian Hamilton Finlay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ian Hamilton Finlay (born 1925) is a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
		Sir Roy Strong has said of Little Sparta that it is: "the only really original garden made in this country since 1945".
		Finlay, Ian Hamilton: The Dancers Inherit the Party and Glasgow Beasts, An' a Burd.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Hamilton_Finlay (394 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Ian Hamilton
		Poets divide between the putters-in and the leavers-out, and Hamilton was firmly the latter.
		Soon Hamilton's influence was felt in London, too, where he worked for the Times Literary Supplement as poetry and fiction editor (1965-73), in the heyday of unsigned reviews: several of the more acidic notices were written by him.
		Hamilton was famous for his restaurant habits, which consisted of smoking, drinking and playing with his food.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,625531,00.html (1326 words)

	Change to plan
		Sir Ian Hamilton arrived at Major-General Hammersley’s headquarters about 6 pm, and in his despatch of December 11th, 1915, he describes the conversation which took place, and the extent to which he modified the orders previously given by Sir Frederick Stopford for the attack next morning.
		Sir Frederick Stopford says in his report that, in view of the radical changes made by Sir Ian Hamilton in his plans and dispositions for the attack on the 9th, he repudiates any responsibility for the results of the action.
		Sir Ian Hamilton states that he thought it would be reported by General Hammersley, and General Hammersley states that it did not occur to him at the time that he ought to report it.
	www.btinternet.com /~Navradar/yorkandlancs/change_to_plan.html (1132 words)

	Books \| Bully beef and fly stew
		Sir Ian Hamilton, a brave, chivalrous officer, lamented the plight of his troops in poetic prose.
		Carlyon is too generous towards Hamilton, not blaming him for failing to understand techniques of war that had changed more in "eight months than in the whole of the 42 years he had been in the army".
		Hamilton was deferential to his superiors, asking Kitchener for reinforcements, as Carlyon puts it, "like a man trying to obtain a bank overdraft by suggesting he won't use it".
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4566261-110738,00.html (1222 words)

	Bulletin - Unfriendly fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Ian Hamilton, the commander of the Allied land forces at Gallipoli, had a nightmare, the worst of his life, on the night of September 1, 1915.
		Hamilton, 62 years old, a thin and sinewy man with a vaulting forehead and warm and sensitive eyes, was one of Britain’s most experienced generals and also one of the most unusual.
		Hamilton said he had been tipped off by a journalist (others have identified him as Henry Nevinson, the representative of the English provincial press) who was worried about the “honour of his profession”.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /Bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/0370FE433E7BE50CCA256A8B001C9F4C (4078 words)

	Source 3 \| Useful notes
		Hamilton had 75,000 men at his command, and this proved to be nowhere near enough to capture Gallipoli.
		Hamilton was also short of supplies and ammunition for most of the campaign.
		Hamilton was replaced in October 1915 and this effectively ended his career.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /greatwar/usefulnotes/g4cs2s3u.htm (276 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - Sir Ian Hamilton on the Battle of Sari Bair, 6 August 1915
		Reproduced below is the report by the British Commander-in-Chief of operations in Gallipoli, Sir Ian Hamilton.
		Hamilton's account deals with operations initiated on 6 August 1915 - the landings at Suvla Bay - and specifically with the ultimately unsuccessful Battle of Sari Bair.
		One of these was to capture the enemy's positions commanding the foothills, first to open the mouths of the ravines, secondly to cover the right flank of another covering force whilst it marched along the beach.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/saribair_hamilton.htm (2868 words)

	Origins of the acronym ANZAC [Australian War Memorial]
		One of the first occurrences of the word appeared in a book of sketches by Signaller Ellis Silas and in its foreword by Sir Ian Hamilton.
		In the foreword General Sir Ian Hamilton attributes to himself the coining of the acronym as a convenient piece of telegraphese devised for security purposes.
		As the man who first seeking to save himself the trouble, omitted the five full stops and brazenly coined the word "ANZAC", I am glad to write a line or two in preface to sketches which may help to give currency to that token throughout the realms of glory.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/anzac/acronym/doc.htm (512 words)

	Operations in Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The commander of the expeditionary force, General Sir Ian Hamilton, left England without a staff or any up-to-date information about Turkish defences; there were also long delays in despatching the required troops.
		As the first elements arrived on the island of Lemnos, the rear base for the invasion, the whole expedition was diverted to Egypt, to enable men and equipment to be rearranged in their transports.
		Hamilton, who was in favour of mounting a further offensive with more troops, was out of tune with official thinking, and on 22 October he was replaced by General Sir Charles Monro, who was also directing the Salonika campaign.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/gallipoli.htm (1244 words)

	Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		British explorer, botanist, and pioneer colonial administrator Harry Hamilton Johnston was closely involved in the so-called “scramble for Africa”; among 19th-century European colonial powers.
		The fictional character Sir Geraint is a knight of Arthurian legend.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043880?tocId=9043880 (792 words)

	The Great War Society: 90th Anniversary - Second Landing at Gallipoli
		Hamilton's orders resulted in the retreat of the advance units and the green divisions were eventually decimated by an Ottoman charge (Rhodes James, 1965).
		In the aftermath of the Suvla Bay landings, Hamilton shifted the British 53rd, 54th, and 29th divisions to reinforce the troops at Suvla Bay and attempted a final breakout on August 21 with the assaults on Scimitar Hill and Hill 60.
		In the aftermath of the Suvla offensive, Sir Charles Monro replaced Hamilton as commander of allied forces (Keegan, 1995).
	www.worldwar1.com /tgws/suvlabay.htm (684 words)

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		An important military commander, such as Sir Ian [Hamilton], is greatly handicapped by his position, which restricts his movements and necessitates his being attended by those who can be instructed what to tell him and what to keep from him; moreover his inability to speak the language likewise acts as a handicap.
		Hamilton’s literary talents would be especially apparent after the Russo-Japanese War, when he wrote a best-selling account of his experiences with the Japanese army under the title A Staff Officer’s Scrap-Book, while during the war, the controversial and occasionally sarcastic tone of his reports would generate criticism and praise at home in equal measure.
		Even Hamilton himself had to confess that when addressing the question of cavalry in his reports, he had regarded his observations as vindication of his earlier views and ‘“rubbed it in” with all the sarcasm at my disposal’, which was not exactly in keeping with the objectivity usually required when writing official reports.
	www.ganesha-publishing.com /russo_jap_intro.htm (9244 words)

	The Anzac Landing at Gallipoli - Reports by War Correspondents
		While in Cairo, Murdoch, who was anxious to visit the battlefront, wrote for permission to do so to General Sir Ian Hamilton, who was in command of the mixed force that had landed at Gallipoli in April to attack Constantinople and knock Turkey out of the war.
		So Hamilton took the course of getting Murdoch to sign the war correspondent's declaration undertaking "not to attempt to correspond by any other route or by any other means than that officially sanctioned" and promising that for the duration of the war he would not "impart to anyone military information of a confidential nature....
		Maxwell, on instructions from Hamilton, would allow no criticism of the conduct of the operation, no indication of set-backs or delays, and no mention of casualty figures; finally, he refused to give permission for any of Ashmead-Bartlett's messages to be transmitted until Hamilton's own official cables had reached London.
	anzacsite.gov.au /1landing/knightley.html (1488 words)

	Prelude
		After a conference with the senior Army officer on the scene (General Sir Ian Hamilton), de Robeck proposed a joint operation in which the Army would secure the forts before the Navy tried to force a passage.
		Sir Ian Hamilton later commanded the Gallipoli campaign from on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.
		It led directly to the dismissal of Sir Ian Hamilton who never again was to hold a senior military position.
	www.anzacs.net /Prelude.htm (1949 words)

	Ian Hamilton
		Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton - Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, 1853–1947, British general.
		A passionate partisan: Robert Potts on the late Ian Hamilton, influential voice of a critical generation.
		The central character Ian Hamilton on a biography of Saul Bellow that is more admiring of the novels than of the novelist (The Sunday Telegraph)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0900322.html (369 words)

	McKellen, Sir Ian -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Ian Maclaren was the pen name of Scottish clergyman and author John Watson.
		By the time she received her first recording contract at age 15, Janis Ian was already an experienced singer-songwriter and outspoken social critic.
		Beginning in the mid-1960s, she used her folk-oriented songs to explore subjects that were often considered taboo, such as interracial relationships, adolescent angst,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049765?tocId=9049765 (767 words)

	April Landings
		Sir Ian Hamilton had been appointed to lead the operation on the 13th March.
		General Sir Horace Smith-Dorien commanded II Corps on the Western Front in 1914, but in 1900 in South Africa he came under the orders of Hamilton during the Boer War.
		Hamilton stayed on board the battleship Queen Elizabeth from where he had little information of the situation on the ground.
	www.btinternet.com /~NavRadar/yorkandlancs/april_landings.html (997 words)

	Spectator, The: Fighting on the beaches
		John Lee's persuasive and sympathetic life of Sir Ian Hamilton is a model of military biography, although how it will be received in Australia, given its treatment of Rupert Murdoch's father (a journalist and war correspondent none too careful with the truth) is hard to predict.
		The essays introduced by Sir Martin Gilbert were originally delivered as the Gallipoli Memorial Lectures at the Holy Trinity Church, Eltham, where a Gallipoli memorial chapel was established in 1971 and where an annual memorial service was held between 1917 and 1984.
		The man in charge was Sir Ian Hamilton, a forward-looking and experienced commander, whom Lord Roberts considered its finest officer in the army, and who had twice been considered for the VC.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200006/ai_n8905509 (1002 words)

	The Landings
		Hamilton by leaving a weak army to the Peninsula would leave for Istanbul and would unify with the Russian Division landed on the Bosphorus.
		On 17 March, Hamilton was looking to the Dardanelles from the deck of Phaeton.
		Hamilton and his staff had gone to Egypt.
	warofcanakkale.8m.com /custom2.html (431 words)

	Ian Hamilton Finlay ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1775
		Hamilton J Hay, The New Lion, British Musuem, London, 1913
		Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Duchess of Argyll and Hamilton (sketch for painting), 18th century
	wwar.com /masters/f/finlay-ian_hamilton.html (570 words)

	CLAN HAMILTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hamilton - A chapter from The Highland Clans
		Sir Ian Moncreiffe does an excellent job of outlining the Hamilton's early connection to the Highlands and their emergance as a "Highland Clan" circa 1474.
		Brief history of the Burg of Hamilton and an explanation of the Quincentnary.
	clanhamilton.acomhosting.com /Archive/hamiltondocuments.htm (334 words)

	Likhari:article, gallant udai singh at gallipoli, pritam s sidu (padda2)
		By the time Hamilton landed on April 25 at the Southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula near Cape Helles with four British and one French divisions, the Turks had increased their strength to six divisions.
		In 1907, he went to Ferozepore to take part in a wrestling match, recruiting teams used to frequent such occasions, and one such team which was present there that day was able to lure Udai Singh to join the 14th Sikhs.
		Sir Ian Hamilton decided to carry out a general attack on the 4th of June with the object of gaining ground along the whole length of the Allied front at Helles.
	www.likhari.org /padda2.htm (1241 words)

	Conan-Doyle, The Great Boer War: Chapter IV: The Eve of War
		The advance began by a movement of Ian Hamilton on April 22nd with eight hundred mounted infantry upon the waterworks.
		Ian Hamilton, who had already done good service in the war, having commanded the infantry at Elandslaagte, and been one of the most prominent leaders in the defence of Ladysmith, takes from this time onwards a more important and a more independent position.
		After this victory Hamilton's men, who had fought for seven days out of ten, halted for a rest at Jacobsrust, where they were joined by Broadwood's cavalry and Bruce Hamilton's infantry brigade.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /conan-doyle-chapter-23.htm (4788 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the Dardanelles expedition was a British affair under command of Sir Ian Hamilton, the British general considered the French commander 'more as a coadjutor than as a subordinate' (Hamilton's diary, 14 June 1915, cited in C.F. Aspinall-Oglander, Military operations, Gallipoli, vol.
		After an attack on the Turkish strongpoint called the Quadrilateral on the Kereves Spur, Gouraud was severely wounded on 30 June, losing his right arm and suffering two broken legs.
		He was held in such high regard that King George V sent a telegram of regret to Sir Ian Hamilton.
	www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wwi/bio/g/gouraud.html (384 words)

	Span Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The concept of span of control was popularized in 1922 by Sir Ian Hamilton, a British general who said the experiences of centuries of military leaders have shown that a leader can directly control no more than three to six persons.
		A dozen years later, Lithuanian management consultant V.A. Graicunas introduced the idea that the relationships among people you supervise are as important as their sheer number.
		Hamilton said generals should have no more than three direct reports, while low-level officers can handle as many as six.
	www.entrepreneur.com /mag/article/0,1539,285040----2-,00.html (502 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| First World War \| Glossary
		Haig, Sir Douglas (1861-1928) Commander of the 1st Army Corps of the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1914; succeeded Sir John French as commander-in-chief of British forces in France in December 1915, a position he held until the end of the war - despite his uneasy relationship with Lloyd George.
		Seen by some as the 'butcher' behind the bloody Somme and Passchendaele campaigns in 1916 and 1917, others argue that, particularly in 1918, Haig proved himself to be an astute military leader.
		Hamilton, Sir Ian (1853-1947) A close ally of the war secretary Lord Kitchener, Hamilton's appointment as commander of the Gallipoli expedition (1915-16) ended in failure and he was given no further command during the First World War.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/glossary/glossary_h.htm (499 words)

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