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	Battle of Mantinea (362 BC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Mantinea was fought in 362 BC between the Thebans, led by Epaminondas and supported by the Arcadians and the Boeotians, and the Spartans, led by King Agesilaus II and supported by the Eleans and Mantineans.
		After the battle of Leuctra in 371 BC had shattered the foundations of Spartan hegemony, there was an attempt by Thebes' chief politician and general Epaminondas to build a new hegemony centered on his city.
		The ultimate result of the battle was to pave the way for the Macedonian conquest of Greece, by ensuring the weakness of both the Thebans and the Spartans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Mantinea_(362_BC) (581 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Leuctra
		Leuctra, village of ancient Greece, in Boeotia, famous as the site of the victory of the Thebans, under Epaminondas, over the Spartans in 371 bc.
		Leuctra, Battle of, battle in 371 bc marking the end of Spartan military supremacy in Greece (Sparta).
		At Leuctra, in the ancient Greek republic of...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Leuctra.html (58 words)

	Battle of Leuctra: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Battle of Leuctra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leuctra was a village of Boeotia in the territory of Thespiae, chiefly noticeable for the battle fought in its neighborhood in 371 BC between the Thebans and the Spartans and their allies.
		Owing to the arrival of a Thessalian army under Jason of Pherae[?], whose friendship they did not trust, the Thebans were unable to exploit their victory.
		But the battle is none the less of great significance in Greek history.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ba/Battle-of-Leuctra.html (327 words)

	Adrianople (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His men had also had their morale bolstered by the fact that any battle, if one was to be fought now, would take place at a site where an oracle had predicted the “Lacedaemonians would be defeated” after some Theban women had committed suicide at the spot after being “outraged” by rampaging Spartan-types.
		Xenophon, in his account of the battle, suggests that this was because the Spartan allies were actually pleased to see their Lacedaemonian masters beaten by the upstart Thebans.
		Leuctra is an interesting to re-fight as the weaker side won the original battle through the use of innovative tactics.
	www.visbellica.com /Scenarios/Leuctra/sc_leuctra.htm (1027 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Xenophon: The Battle of Leuctra, 371 BCE
		In 371 B.C. at Leuctra, in Boeotia, on the road from Plataea to Thespiae, the Thebans met and defeated the Spartans.
		Both sides were now arming, and there were unmistakable signs of approaching battle, when, as the first incident, there issued from the Boeotian lines a long train bent on departure---they were furnishers of the market, a detachment of baggage bearers and in general such people as had no hankering to join in the fight.
		Still strong evidence exists for supposing that Cleombrotus and his division were, in the first instance, victorious in the battle, if we consider the fact that they could never have picked him up and brought him back alive unless his vanguard had been masters of the situation for the moment.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/371leuctra.html (1259 words)

	FAMOUS THEBANS
		Many indeed think this strict and entire affection is to be dated from the battle of Mantinea, where they both fought, being part of the assistance that was sent from Thebes to the Lacedaemonians, their then friends and allies.
		Battle of Tegyra: Pelopidas was leader of the "Sacred Band" (300 lovers).
		Pelopidas, serving as Boeotarch, was killed in battle against the Thessalians and Alexander of Pherae (Plutarch Pelopidas 32.).
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/thebans.html (713 words)

	AGESILAUS II. - LoveToKnow Article on AGESILAUS II. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cleombrotus was defeated at Leuctra and the Spartan supremacy overthrown.
		The battle of Mantinea (362), 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.
	www.1911ency.org /A/AG/AGESILAUS_II_.htm (937 words)

	HELLAS:NET - Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He managed to convince his men that an open battle was their only hope and together with their elite unit 'the Devoted Brothers in Arms', under the leadership of Pelopidas, they entered the plains.
		With the destruction of the Spartan power at the battle of Leuctra the decade of Theban hegemony had begun.
		Leuctra was a defeat for Sparta, but it was not this military defeat which resulted in the end of Sparta.
	monolith.dnsalias.org /~marsares/warfare/battle/leuctra.html (1301 words)

	PlanetPapers - What Caused The Downfall of Sparta?
		The Spartans allowing the helots to fight in the Battle of Leuctra was a desperate measure that had never been tried before, because Sparta had never been so desperate.
		Even if the helots were able to win the Battle of Leuctra for the Spartans, there was still much corruption in Sparta, which had ruined the simple Spartan way of life.
		Even if the Battle of Leuctra had been lost, but the 'Spartan way of life' was still intact and the Spartiates were still obedient to the state and all its laws, I think that Sparta would have picked itself up again and continued as it had done.
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	Battle of Leuctra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For it was after the morning meal that Cleombrotus held his last council over the battle, and drinking a little, as they did, at the middle of the day, it was said that the wine helped somewhat to excite them.
		Nevertheless, the fact that Cleombrotus and his men were at first victorious in the battle may be known from this clear indication: they would not have been able to take him up and carry him off still living, had not those who were fighting in front of him been holding the advantage at that time.
		So then, by arranging his phalanx in oblique formation, he planned to decide the issue of the battle by means of the wing in which were the elite.
	luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/aa/source03.htm (2198 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Time Commanders
		After a brief introduction of the battle, including an overview of military units, terrain and available forces, the players have to develop a strategy and then deploy their forces.
		Two of the players are selected as generals, who will direct the battle and have access to a strategic map.
		Troop deployment and battle follows, although in the second series, there is a small skirmish conducted as a separate event, to acquaint the players with the game mechanics and their units.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Time_Commanders (304 words)

	The Guild - Deeper formations should be more effective
		Another example is the Battle of Thermopylae where the Hellenes needed to fill the pass between the mountains with hardly any men, and so defeated the Persians for a couple of days, until the Persians sneaked around the side and so encircled the Spartans and Thebans and Thespians.
		The battle of Leuctra that High Voltage refers to, is as far as I know a unique event.
		At this Battle of Leuctra the Thracians sallied out the way they did because they realized they had no chance in a prolonged, standard battle, and that their only hope was to amass at one point and violently and quickly break the Hoplites.
	forums.totalwar.org /vb/printthread.php?t=8508 (2185 words)

	Assignment One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 371 B.C., a long-brewing conflict between Sparta and Thebes came to a boil at the battle of Leuctra, which resulted in a stunning defeat for the Spartans.
		Topography is relatively unimportant to the study of this battle (the plain of Leuctra is more or less unencumbered), so our evaluation of the battle depends more or less entirely on the literary sources.
		Also relevant to his account of Leuctra is the fact that he was very much pro-Spartan, and had spent much of his life at Sparta (in exile from Athens), and moved in influential circles there.
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~warfare/Guides/ag01.html (598 words)

	Nevada - Uncyclopedia
		Nevada is also known in Japan due her constant victories agaisnt the enemies of Japan (Japanese Monsters, Australia) and her participation in countless battles.
		This made her one of the most powerful beings of the universe and with her skill and prowess in battle she won the favor of Hirohito.
		After the Battle of Leuctra, she went to Babylon where she helped the Prince of Persia destroy the Sands of Time (again).
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Nevada (565 words)

	Fall of an Evil Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His friends then went to Cleombrotus and said: "If you let the Thebans escape without a battle, you will be in danger of suffering the gravest penalty at the hands of your state.".
		The decisive defeat of the Spartan hoplite army by the armed forces of Thebes at the battle of Leuctra in 371
		Leuctra must have seemed to many observers of the contemporary scene like rain from a clear blue sky.
	historynet.com /mhq/blsparta (1341 words)

	Battle of Leuctra / Library of Xenograg the Sorcerer
		Battle of Leuctra / Library of Xenograg the Sorcerer
		The Spartans drew up for battle in the conventional phalangial line, the best troops on the right, a few cavalrymen and light troops covering the flanks.
		In such a battle the Spartans, superior both in numbers and in fighting quality, would unquestionably have been victorious.
	xenograg.isauras.com /excerpts/war/leuctra.php (283 words)

	Prìomh.com - Prìomh Plays: The Battle of Leuctra
		The concept is to take a famous battle of the ancient world and compare it to the strategy and formations of a football play (American football of course).
		The Battle of Leuctra took place in 371 B.C. primarily between the Greek city-states of Sparta and Thebes.
		It's notable that some years later in the Battle of Chaeronea, Phillips and Alexander found a way to turn that oblique order to their advantage and basically totally destroyed the Theban army.
	www.priomh.com /comments.php?id=P220_0_1_0 (1330 words)

	Monument (Trophy) of The Battle of Leuktra (371 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Monument (Trophy) of The Battle of Leuktra (371 B.C.)
		ollowing the custom according to which trophies were erected on the very spot of the battle, the one in question was erected on the field of the battle of Leuktra which took place in 371 B.C. by the Thebans and their leader Epameinondas after they had defeated the Lacedaemonians.
		An ancient boeotian coin informs us about the shape of the trophy itself: on a tree trunk was attached an armoury which was collected from the defeated opponents.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21109n/e211in01.html (191 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 172 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	ancient warfare index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	HELLAS:NET - Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The irony was that Epaminondas had used exactly the same trick as the Spartans had used during the battle of Aigospotamoi against Athens in 405 BC.
		The Thebans used the same strategy as during the battle of Leuctra, and the Spartans had obviously learned nothing of this last battle.
		The Theban cavalry and peltasts moved forwards at both sides of the phalanx and attacked the cavalry and peltasts of the Coalition.
	monolith.dnsalias.org /~marsares/warfare/battle/mantinea.html (1216 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Battle of Leuctra
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	World History 400-300 BC
		-Sparta was defeated at the Battle of Leuctra by Epaeminondas of Thebes.
		The battle was hard-fought but Alexander's troops gained the upper hand, and killed or captured half of the Persian army which was forced to retreat.
		- Ptolemy, ruler of Egypt, defeated Antigonus at the battle of Gaza.
	www.multied.com /dates/400bc.html (535 words)

	USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Ancient Greek Military:Mercenaries ~ December 16, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As mercenaries they participated in the battles besides the Athenian phalanx, but inside the city they also were used to maintain the order.
		Leuctra established Theban independence from Spartan rule, and laid the groundwork for the expansion of Theban power.
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