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Seventh Year of the War-Occupation of Pylos-Surrenderof the Spartan Army in Sphacteria
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But by law he was the leader of the Spartan armies.
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The Spartan army moved off to defend their own city.
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The cavalry, never a very strong part of the Spartan army, were posted on either flank.
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Better, perhaps, than a Spartan army was the genius of Miltiades, one of the Athenian generals.
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Yet the Spartan armies were frequently defeated in pitched battles,-anoccurrence considered impossible in the earlier ages of Greece.
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Although the Athenian fleet had caused much damage, and had come home victorious, the Spartan army was still in Attica.
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The Spartans gained a name at Thermopylae, in which Leonidas and the whole Spartan army were slain while defending the pass.
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The Oracle refuses to release the Spartan army to its ruler as no battle can occur during an upcoming religious celebration.
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A strong Spartan army, supported by the Athenians and their allies, met the Persians near the little town of Plataea in Boeotia.
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A few days later the victorious Spartan army marched unchallenged into Athens, for there were now no fighting men left to oppose them.
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401, to June, 400), and nine months more passed before they joined the Spartan army in Asia Minor, and their task was fully accomplished.