This prevented Preventing_or_letting Masséna from sending Sending reinforcements to quell an uprising that had started Process_start in Calabria as well as allowing Preventing_or_letting the British to land an expeditionary force and score a victory at the Battle of Maida .

A shortage of transport aircraft meant the division could not land in their traditional way by parachute and glider , and all the landing craft in the area were already allocated Dispersal to the other landings : Operation Avalanche at Salerno on the western coast , and Operation Baytown at Calabria .