Disaster fell on one army involved in this event while they were searching for drinking water near the Assinarus River.
Disaster fell on one army involved in this event while they were searching for drinking water near the Assinarus River. Resistance against this action was first organized at a conference at Gela, and the plan for it was first formulated after a request from the city of Segesta. Its most vocal supporters included Hyperbolus, who advocated expanding it to include an attack on Carthage. Tables turned against the aggressors in it when Hermocrates was joined by Gylippus, a military adviser from Sparta, and the recall of Alcibiades significantly hampered this campaign's execution. FTP, identify this disastrous Athenian campaign to capture an island that included cities such as Syracuse.
Disaster fell on one army involved in this event while they were searching for drinking water near the Assinarus River.
{Sicilian Expedition} (accept equivalents like {Sicilian Campaign} and other thing with the word Sicily connected to some synonym of military endeavor)