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| | Battle of Mantinea (418 BC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Late in 418, the Argives and their allies marched against Tegea, where a faction was ready to turn the city over to the Argive alliance. |
 | | Instead of allowing Mantinea to be flooded, the Argive army moved quicker then the Spartans anticipated, as the Argive hoplites were very angry at their generals for not pursuing the Spartan army and accused them of treason. |
 | | Brasidas' veterans (Brasidas himself had been killed at the Battle of Amphipolis), and the Sciritae (an elite unit of Spartan troops) formed the left wing, the Spartans, Arcadians, Heraeans and Maenalians in the centre, and the Tegeans, who were fighting for their homeland took the postion of honour on the right wing. |
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