Grivas was the Cyprus-born military hero of the 1950s, a hero to Greek Cypriots, because he led the campaign of terror and obstruction against the British. Grivas was a Greek colonel who earned fame during the Greek civil war following World War II. Fiercely anticommunist, he was also fiercely nationalistic, believing that Cyprus should be a part of Greece. He organized and led EOKA, the underground group that conducted operations against British installations, assassinated Greek Cypriot Acollaborators,@ and then---after the Turkish Cypriots began to assert themselves against enosis in 1958---turned his violent methods against them. He was at odds with Makarios, particularly when the Archbishop accepted the anti-enosis treaties of 1959. His brand of militancy became increasingly destructive in the 1960s, as Turkey would no longer tolerate his antics. He died just before the bloody events of 1974, events which EOKA B set in motion. While his Avision's of a Cyprus that would be a province of Greece was responsible in part for Britain quitting the island, this same vision roused Turkey and led, perhaps, to its insistence on partition.