During the siege , Hannibal and a large number of Carthaginian soldiers perished Death from the plague , and the survivors were in dire straits after the Greeks managed Control to cut their supply lines .

The Carthaginians , now led by Himilco , a Magonid kinsman of Hannibal , managed to capture a Greek supply convoy of ships using the Carthaginian fleet , which forced the Greeks to face the threat of starvation in turn .

In 2007 , the International Association of Genocide Scholars ( IAGS ) reached Arriving a consensus that the `` Ottoman campaign Military_operation against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide Killing against Armenians , Assyrians , and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks . ''

Gregory Stanton , the President of the IAGS in 2007–2008 and the founder of Genocide Watch , endorsed Agree_or_refuse_to_act the `` repudiation Statement by the world 's leading Causation genocide scholars of the Turkish government 's ninety-year denial of the Ottoman Empire 's genocides Killing against its Christian populations , including Assyrians , Greeks , and Armenians . ''

The Battle of Marathon was a watershed in the Greco-Persian wars Hostile_encounter , showing the Greeks that the Persians could be beaten Bodily_harm ; the eventual Greek triumph in these wars Hostile_encounter can be seen Traveling to have begun Process_start at Marathon .

The battle also showed the Greeks that they were able to win battles without the Spartans , as they had heavily relied on Sparta previously .

The rationale for this campaign is usually said Telling to be Alexander 's desire to conquer Conquering the entire known world , which the Greeks thought ended Process_end in India .

The combatants were , on one side , the Ottoman Empire ( including Kurds and some Arab tribes ) , with some assistance Assistance from the other Central Powers ; and on the other side , the British ( with the help Assistance of Jews , Greeks , Assyrians and the majority of the Arabs , along with Indians under its empire ) , the Russians ( with the help Assistance of Armenians ) and the French from among the Allied Powers .

The programme featured interviews with unemployed Employment Greeks , unpaid workers , striking Attack workers of the Greek steel industry , unpaid employees Employment of newspaper Eleftherotypia , economist Dimitris Kazakis ( who referred Cause_to_be_included to the imposition of new measures by the government Papademos ) , the chairman of power company union GENOP , Nikos Fotopoulos , and former broadcast journalist John Kanelakis .

The events were triggered Causation by the false news that the day before , Greeks had bombed Attack the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki , in northern Greece—the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been born in 1881 .

The Turkish press , conveying the news in Turkey , was silent about the arrest and instead insinuated that Greeks had set off Placing the bomb .

The pogrom greatly accelerated emigration of ethnic Greeks from Turkey , and the Istanbul region in particular .

Its dramatic last stand , sometimes called `` Wilson 's Last Stand '' , achieved Achieve a prominent place in the British public imagination and , subsequently , in Rhodesian history , similarly to events such as the Battle of The Little Bighorn in the United States , the Battle of Shiroyama in Japan , the Battle of the Alamo in Texas , and the Greeks ' last stand at Thermopylae .