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