The plan adopted by the command provides for a Franco-British landing on a few small beaches on the western coast of the peninsula, in the region of Cape Hellès which marks its southern end, while the ANZAC army corps will attack further north, in front of Gaba-Tépé. A naval diversion will be conducted at the bottom of the Gulf of Saros, in the far north, and a French regiment will set foot on the Asian side of the strait to control the "Castle of Asia", Koum-Kalé, whose mass overlooks the peninsula. of Gallipoli.
It may seem strange that the allies chose the southern end of the peninsula, a mountainous massif with steep coasts providing only a narrow passage towards the Dardanelles strait, rather than the northern region, where the tongue of land ends. shrinks to the extreme. Cutting the peninsula at this point could have isolated three Turkish divisions, deprived them of their supplies and would have allowed the Allies to border the Sea of Marmara. The straits would have been turned if not crossed in force.
French General d'Amade would have preferred to land on the Asian shore, which was easier to access, but London decided:the operation would take place simultaneously on five beaches in the south of the peninsula, dominated by "the Castle of Europe", Sedd ul-Bahr and Mount Achi-Baba and in Gaba-Tépé, at the foot of Chunuk Bair. The general direction of the maneuver being to push along two axes towards Kréthia in the south, and to conquer the balcony of Chunuk Bair in the north. In a second step, the troops would push towards Maidos, which is at the bottom of a bay, at the entrance to the straits, on the Sea of Marmara.