Having the crack Phoenician fleet being decimated by the much smaller Greek fleet in the straits of salamis, the persian king Xerxes, whose initial arrogance quickly changed to horror, fled back to Asia and left his remaining troops under the generalship of his brother in law , Mardonius.
A) Having the crack Phoenician fleet being decimated by the much smaller Greek fleet in the straits of salamis
B) In view of his crack Phoenician fleet had been decimated by the much smaller Greek fleet in the straits of salamis
C) Because of there having been a much smaller Greek fleet in the straits of salamis that decimated his crack Phoenician fleet
D) seeing as the crack Phoenician fleet having been decimated by the much smaller Greek fleet in the straits of salamis
E) His crack Phoenician fleet decimated by the much smaller Greek fleet in the straits of salamis
OA is E.
Can someone please explain what is wrong with B?
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