A monkey's bite killed King Alexander I in 1920 — triggering Venizelos's fall, Constantine's return, and Greece's doomed campaign that ended in the catastrophe of Smyrna in 1922.
Firsthand accounts from Greeks who lived through the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe, collected by the Center for Asia Minor Studies
The article highlighted the actions of the captain of the Tokei-maru, who, despite threats from Turkish forces, managed to rescue 825 Greek refugees.
The burning of Smyrna (Smyrna Catastrophe, as it became known in Greece) was the culmination of the war between Greece and Turkey, which lasted from 1918 until 1922