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July 5 saw both a British victory and a British defeat. In Gallipoli, the attack at Gully Ravine has achieved its (modest results) and advanced the Entente troops up the peninsula slightly. But in South Arabia, under attack by a superior Ottoman force, with reinforcements delayed by sand and weather, and with the heavily-outnumbered troops exhausted by heat and fighting and the sight of allied Arabs fleeing, the British were forced to withdraw. Although strategically it is not so much a problem, the fall in prestige is insulting.

Two days later, with Austrian reinforcements arriving, the Italian attacks at Isonzo were called off, with only minimal gains across the front, at the lost of nearly 25,000 men on both sides.

On July 9, following their loss at Batavi on the 1st, the German forces in South-West Afrika surrended to the South African forces under Louis Botha. Another German colony has surrendered.

Believing Turkish forces in the area to be minimal, the Russian army launched an attack near Manzikert on July 10, but were surprised to find themselves outnumbered nearly 3:1.

Finally, after many long months of fighting since last October, siege warfare, naval skirmishes, ships transported over land, and more, the German cruiser Königsberg has finally been destroyed in the Rufiji Delta.

Damage to the cruiser.