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As the months wore on and as Allied casualties steadily mounted in the Gallipoli Campaign, Churchill, and Hamilton, asked the British High Command to ask for up 100,000 men. The Secretary of War could only afford some 25,0000 men. Hamilton and Churchill wanted to continue the fight. However, as the operation had become a stalemate, the British government decided to end the operation. Hamilton was opposed to any evacuation as it could lead to massive casualties. He was replaced by Sir Charles Monroe, and he began plans for an evacuation <ref> Strachan, Hew. The First World War: To Arms I. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 113</ref>. He oversaw the evacuation of over 100,000 troops. The evacuation took place between December and January 1915-1916. The evacuation withdrawal was carried out in an orderly fashion with only limited casualties. Exact figures are unknown but it seems that some 46,000 allied troops died and almost 180,000 were wounded out of a total force of just under half-a-million menduring the campaign. The Turks suffered rather more casualties with some 65,000 killed and 200,000 wounded<ref> Strachan, p. 113</ref>.