Let's rise up and regain our independence. And many of them thought that Alexander might have already died in a previous military campaign. And so you can imagine they were very surprised after Alexander took control through a siege at Pelium and is able to come down surprisingly quickly. He really makes his soldiers march hundreds of kilometers in a matter of weeks to come down and put down the rebellion from his point of view at Thebes. And the Thebans refuse to stop rebelling. And so in retaliation, Alexander the Great completely destroys Thebes, this famous city of antiquity, this only few decades before this time, the leading city-state in all of Greece. And so he destroys Thebes, he enslaves its people.