A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.
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Examples for "battle of Plataea"
1Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.
2The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Plataea was fought.
3Within eighty years after the battle of Plataea, mercenary troops were everywhere plying for battles and sieges.
4See Encyclopedia Britannica-article on Greece (Persian Wars subtitle) for account of the Persian invasion and battle of Plataea.
5Aristodemus alone remained, branded with disgrace on his return to Sparta; but subsequently redeeming his name at the battle of Plataea.
1Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.
2The Athenians despatched messengers to Sparta, as did also Megara and Plataea.
3He is Alcman, the foster-brother of Pausanias, whom he attended at Plataea.
4There was a battle at Plataea; and there was a battle at Agincourt.
5At this point Sparta decided to destroy Plataea, the Athenian outpost in Boeotia.
6Pretty pickings at Plataea; and we have known losses, my child, sad losses.
7After several days' manoeuvring a general battle took place near Plataea.
8Subsequently we find him celebrating the heroes of Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, and Plataea.
9Such were the arrangements made for the blockade of Plataea.
10No other than the Conqueror of Plataea has a chance of maintaining that authority.
11Thus Plataea nominally became a second Elis-its battle-fieldanother Altis.
12At Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea the fate of our western civilization trembled in the balance.
13The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Plataea was fought.
14Thus was Plataea blotted out from the map of Greece (B.C.
15Such was the end of the victor of Plataea.
16Third Year of the War-Investment of Plataea-NavalVictories of Phormio-Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces