A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.
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 On their refusal, Platæa was besieged by the allied forces of the Peloponnesians.
7 Pretty pickings at Plataea ; and we have known losses, my child, sad losses.
8 After several days' manoeuvring a general battle took place near Plataea .
9 Subsequently we find him celebrating the heroes of Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, and Plataea .
10 Such were the arrangements made for the blockade of Plataea .
11 No other than the Conqueror of Plataea has a chance of maintaining that authority.
12 One of the decisive battles of history, like Platæa , or the Metaurus or Gettysburg.
13 Thus Plataea nominally became a second Elis-its battle-fieldanother Altis.
14 At Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea the fate of our western civilization trembled in the balance.
15 The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Plataea was fought.
16 Hostilities were precipitated by a treacherous attack of the Thebans upon Platæa in 431 B.C.
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