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With the help of a heroic priest, Ter Hagaisun, Bagradian herded the population of seven villages up on to the mountain, planned and directed fortification, developed his own tactics and strategy, and preserved his people not only from their enemies but from their own fatalism. Their leader was Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy and Gallicized Armenian, who happened to return, after twenty-three years of absence in Paris, to his ancestral estates, only to find himself involved in the fate of his people for the Turkish Government, in an attempt to exterminate the race, had dispossessed the Armenians and compelled them to migrate, at one day’s notice, into the deserts of Mesopotamia, where they died literally by thousands. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.HIGH up on the slopes of Musa Dagh, the Mountain of Moses, which towers on the shore of the Mediterranean in Syria a few miles from Antioch and Aleppo, some five thousand Armenian villagers, men, women, and children, for forty days successfully withstood the assaults of trained Turkish troops, in spite of disloyalty, disaster, and famine, until they were rescued by French and British warships.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.