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Apart from the operations on the Western Front British troops figured in many historic battles in other theatres of war. In the ill-fated expedition to Gallipoli the soldiers of the Empire showed an undaunted spirit and came near achieving what was regarded by many as an impossible task. Much the same spirit under even more trying circumstances was displayed in Mesopotamia and other parts of the Far East, as is evidenced by the recapture of Kut and the taking of Baghdad. German influence in far waters was destroyed by the seizure of German New Guinea and Samoa; while a great blow to German colonization schemes was dealt by the conquest of East Africa and the Cameroons.