Quote Originally Posted by TT View Post
Wilf posted:
The USMC developed amphibious operations prior to Galipoli?
And after that debacle everyone said that amphibious operations against defended shores was not possible. Except the Marine Corps, which spent the interwar years developing concepts, equipment and their Tentative Manual, and then refined it all after the first few amphib landings in the early island hopping Pacific Campaign. The Marine Corps, some Marines claim, have a 'mystical competence' in amphib ops.
What about the operations in the St. Lawrence River in 1759? Lord Keyes uses that as an example in his Amphibious Warfare and Combined Operations (OUP, 1943). I would also add in some of the earlier operations in the region. This is well before both Galipoli and the USMC.