the erratic jackie fisher famously wrote to churchill, damn the dardanelles. they will be our graves. churchill maintained the campaign was justified and had a reasonable chance of success. devoted wife later told his biographer, he thought he was finished. i thought he would die of grief. churchill's downfall. will a prime minister coalition with conservatives -- will a coalition with conservatives. that plus the ongoing failure in turkey doomed the first lord. news of7, he broke the the new government to churchill, asking, what are we to do for you? the answer was to make him chancellor, a cabinet position but one with no responsibility or power. churchill's cousin called it a bone on which there is little meat. .hurchill lasted six months for the rest of 1915, winston churchill dude and brooded -- stewed and brooded. he took up painting, which became a famous and lifelong pastime. he told his friend, there is more blood and paint upon the sands. hands.-- upon these he sat for a powerful portrait. in the national portrait gallery in london. looking for redem

while some points were well-received, he disastrously had inexplicably demanded the return of jackie fisher to the admiralty. the suggestion was ridiculed and his prospects for a quick comeback were dashed. his days on the front were numbered, and he remained determined to return to parliament where he thought he could do more good than in the mud of the trenches. on his return to flanders, he was reviewed for undue leniency with his men. annoyed by the accusations, he refuted it by showing disciplinary problems had dropped under his leadership. events brought an end to his active duty. a possible promotion to command a brigade failed to appear, and at the end of april, churchill learned that the depleted sixth battalion would be consolidated with the seventh and command the given to another, more senior colonel, rather than to him. he requested he be relieved to be allowed to "attend to my parliamentary and public duties which have become more urgent. leave did noto burden his conscience. he wrote -- i shall have served for five months at the front, always in the front lines. certainly wit

his return to power was delayed as he wrote to jackie fisher, our common enemies are all powerful today and french accounts for less than nothing. i am simply existing. turnedely, his prospects . the dardanelles report released full17 solved him of the blame for the failed expedition. in truth, there was plenty of lame to go around. then in may, a further -- appeared and searchable -- churchill was sent across the channel. -- lloyd george brought him back as minister of munitions. he was a vigorous minister and spent considerable time to meet their armament needs. then he visited his old position in plug street. he wrote to clementine, everything has been torn to pieces, and the shelling remains severe. the british line has only moved forward about a mile, but all the old farms are heat of brick. he turned his focus 2-d mobilization and reconstruction, but he wondered about the future. years later he recalled picking at the time, is this the end. a it merely a chapter in cruel, senseless story. -- or willildren their spring a new reconciliation. he went on to serve multiple offices in t

the real ship that jackie fisher wanted to use to control britain's maritime empire and wish to blow apart anything smaller than it and run away from anything bigger than it was the battle cruiser, the battle cruiser. that is the way of the future. and then there is the brand-new on the scene boat, the destroyer, the motor torpedo destroyer. simply the destroyer. and the destroyer is rapidly integrated into the fleet with technology because of the whitehead torpedo, which increases exponentially in its range and destructiveness and invention until world war i, 3000% in lethality from the late 19th century. that is designed to keep the whitehead torpedo from killing in a major sea battle. there is, by the way, our new technology, the first fire and forget weapon at sea, the whitehead torpedo or the modern or veto. these are things -- modern torpedo. these are things that captured naval power, but we are not sure why. it seems this little thing up in the right-hand, your left hand, the submarine vessel invented by mr. holland to be a terror weapon against the british empire against the