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Leuctra

noun
1.
Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece.  Synonym: battle of Leuctra.





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... is remarkable that there is no other instance of a Greek general deviating from the ordinary mode of bringing a phalanx of spearmen into action until the battles of Leuctra and Mantinea, more than a century after Marathon, when Epaminondas introduced the tactics which Alexander the Great in ancient times, and Frederick the Great in modern times, made so famous, of concentrating an overpowering ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various


Words linked to "Leuctra" :   battle of Leuctra, pitched battle, Hellenic Republic, Ellas, Greece


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