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  Battle of Cnidus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cnidus Coronea Lechaeum Naxos Leuctra Mantinea
At the Battle of Cnidus (394 BC), the Persian fleet, led by the former Athenian admiral Conon, utterly destroyed the Spartan fleet led by the inexperienced Peisander, ending Sparta's brief bid for naval supremacy.
The battle was a significant boost for the anti-Spartan coalition that resisted Spartan hegemony in the course of the Corinthian War.
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 Wikinfo | List of naval battles
Battle of Salamis (308 BC) Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the fleet of Menelaeus, brother of Ptolemy I
Battle of Chios (201 BC) Philip V of Macedon is defeated by the Egyptians, Rhodians, and Pergamese
Battle of the Nile (1798) (battle of Abukir Bay)
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 WikiMiki.net - 394 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The battle of Mantinea (362 BC), in which Agesilaus took no part, was followed by a general peace: Sparta, however, stood aloof, hoping even yet to recover her supremacy.
The worst trait in his character is his implacable hatred of Thebes, which led directly to the battle of Leuctra and Sparta's fall from her position of supremacy.
At the Battle of Cnidus (394 BCE), the Persian fleet, led by the former Athenian admiral Conon, utterly destroyed the Spartan fleet led by the inexperienced Peisander, ending Sparta's brief bid for naval supremacy.
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 Erythrae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Erythraeans owned for a considerable time the supremacy of Athens, but towards the close of the Peloponnesian War they threw off their allegiance to that city.
After the battle of Cnidus, however, they received Conon, and paid him honours in an inscription, still extant.
Erythrae was the birthplace of two prophetesses--one of whom, Sibylla, is mentioned by Straboas living in the early period of the city; the other, Athenais, lived in the time of Alexander the Great.
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 Battle of Naxos: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The naval battle of arginusae took place in 406 bc during the peloponnesian war....
The second battle of ushant was a naval battle fought between the french and british fleets near ushant on 12 december 1781 during the american revolutionary...
The battle of dungeness was a naval battle of the first anglo-dutch war fought on 10 december 1652 near the cape of dungeness in kent....
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 Battle of cunaxa - Cyrus the Younger on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Battle of cunaxa - Cyrus the Younger on Encyclopedia.com
After the battle of Cunaxa and death of Cyrus (401), Xenophon assumed responsibility for the retreat of the Hellene mercenaries to Hellas.
Cyrus was killed in the battle of Cunaxa.
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 Greco-Persian Wars - Military History Wiki
The Greek fleet was crushed at the Battle of Lade in 494, and the Ionian cities sacked, although they were permitted to have democratic governments afterwards.
Athens was evacuated, and the Greek fleet withdrew to Salamis.
Maneuvers in Boeotia, particularly cavalry harassment of the 38,000 Athenian and Peloponnesian hoplites, ended with the Battle of Plataea; Mardonius was killed, and his army routed.
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 Evagoras - Phantis
Expecting an eventual Persian response to recapture Cyprus, he cultivated the friendship of the Athenians, and after Conon's defeat at the Battle of Aegospotami he provided him with a refuge.
He took part in the battle of Cnidus of 394 BC, in which the Spartan fleet was defeated, and for this service his statue was placed by the Athenians side by side with that of Conon in the Ceramicus.
The war then turned in the Persian favor when Evagoras' fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Citium, and he was compelled to flee to Salamis.
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