`` The Battle of Maldon '' is the name conventionally given Giving to a surviving 325-line fragment of Old English poetry .

The starting date is conventionally held Defending to be 24 April 1915 , the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up , arrested Arrest , and deported Removing from Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) to the region of Angora ( Ankara ) , 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders , the majority of whom were eventually murdered Committing_crime .