Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Chios (Social War).

Chios having risen against Athenian rule in B.C. 357, a fleet of 60 ships under Chabrias and Chares was sent to reduce it. A force having been landed, a joint attack was made by the fleet and the army, but in attempting to enter the harbour, the galley of Chabrias, which led the way, was surrounded and overpowered, Chabrias falling.[falling.] The troops were then withdrawn, and the attack abandoned.