 The British preparations could not be made in secret , and by March 1915 , the Turks were aware that a force of fifty thousand British and thirty thousand French troops was gathering at Lemnos . They considered there were only four likely places for them to land : Cape Helles , Gaba Tepe , Bulair , or on the Asiatic ( eastern ) coast of the Dardanelles . 
 The British preparations could not be made in secret , and by March 1915 , the Turks <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> aware that a force of fifty thousand British and thirty thousand French troops was gathering at Lemnos . They considered <a href='dey_it' title='2'><mark>there</mark></a> <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> only four likely places for them to land : Cape Helles , Gaba Tepe , Bulair , or on the Asiatic ( eastern ) coast of the Dardanelles . 
Da British preparations could not be made in secret , and by March 1915 , the Turks was aware that a force of fifty thousand British and thirty thousand French troops was gathering at Lemnos . They considered it was only four likely places for em to land : Cape Helles , Gaba Tepe , Bulair , or on the Asiatic ( eastern ) coast of tdaDardanelles .