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	k2t.org - Thornton's Freehold - Kit and Kathleen Thornton welcome you. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		· 479 BC — The Romans are defeated by the Veii at the Battle of Cremera.
		· 457 BC — The Romans are defeated by the Aequi at the Battle of Mt. Algidus.
		387 BC — The Roman Army is defeated at the Battle of Allia by Brennus and the Gauls.
	www.k2t.org /romanrepublictimeline.htm (6258 words)

	ORCHOMENUS - LoveToKnow Article on ORCHOMENUS
		In the 4th century Orchomenus was actuated throughout by an anti-Theban policy, which may have been nothing more than a recrudescence of old-time rivalry, but seems chiefly inspired by aversion to the newly established democracy at Thebes.
		After the battle of Leuctra it was, left at the mercy of the Thebans, who first, on Epaminondass advice, readmitted it into the Boeotian League, but in 368 destroyed the town and exterminated or enslaved its people.
		Orchomenus fell for a time into the hands of the Mantineians; in 370 it held aloof from the new Arcadian League which the Mantineians were organizing.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORCHOMENUS.htm (1064 words)

	Chronology of Greek History After the Peloponnesian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Wmter) Dionysius I was defeated by Carthage at the battle of Cronium.
		331/330 -- Alexander I of Epirus was defeated at the battle of Pandosia.
		Ptolemy V was defeated at the battle of Panion.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /timeline-greek.htm (2322 words)

	List of Roman battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		225 BC - Battle of Faesulae - Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
		Battle of Herdonia - Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
		357 - Battle of Strasbourg (357) - Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_roman_battles (3256 words)

	List of Roman battles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of the Silarus - Hannibal destroys the army of the Roman praetor M. Centenius Penula.
		Battle of the Metaurus - Hasdrubal is defeated and killed by Nero's Roman army.
		447 - Battle of the Utus - The East Romans defeat Attila the Hun in an indecisive battle.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Roman_battles (3323 words)

	List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Battle of Himera The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.
		Battle of Sellasia Defeat of Cleomenes III of Sparta by Antigonus Doson of Macedon and the Achaean League
		357 Battle of Strasbourg Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland
	www.enlightenweb.net /l/li/list_of_battles_1400_bc_600_ad.html (4466 words)

	ORCHOMENUS (local form on coins and inscriptions, Erchomenos) - Online Information article about ORCHOMENUS (local form ...
		ORCHOMENUS (local form on coins and inscriptions, Erchomenos), the name borne by two cities of ancient Greece.
		Orchomenus is mentioned in the Homeric catalogue with the epithet 7roXu?1Xos.
		In 418 B.C. Orchomenus fell for a time into the hands of the Mantineians; in 370 it held aloof from the new Arcadian League which the Mantineians were organizing.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORCHOMENUS_local_form_on_coins.html (1432 words)

	List of battles before AD 601 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Battle of Lautulae The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
		306 BC Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the fleet of Menelaeus, brother of Ptolemy I
		Battle of Cape Ecnomus A Carthaginian fleet under Hamilcar and Hanno is defeated in an attempt to stop a Roman invasion of Africa by Marcus Atilius Regulus.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-battles-before-AD-601.htm (4874 words)

	TEGEA - LoveToKnow Article on TEGEA
		During the Persian invasion the Tegeans displayed a readiness unusual among Peloponnesian cities; in the battle of Plataea they were the first to enter the enemy's camp.
		Tegea henceforth took an active part in the revival of the Arcadian League and the prosecution of the war in alliance with Thebes against Sparta (371-362), and the ultimate defection of Mantineia confirmed it in its federalist tendencies.
		Both subjects were intimately associated with the temple, for Atalanta had dedicated in it the face and tusks of the boar, which had been awarded to her as the first to wound it; and Telephus was the son of Heracles and the priestess Auge.
	64.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TEGEA.htm (1636 words)

	SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav) - Online Information article about SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)
		After the battle, however, she refused to submit voluntarily to Philip, and was forced to do so by the devastation of Laconia and the transference of certain border districts to the neighbouring states of Argos, Arcadia and Messenia.
		The reign of Cleomenes is marked also by a determined effort to cope with the rising power of the Achaean League (q.v.) and to recover for Sparta her long-lost supremacy in the Peloponnese, and even throughout Greece.
		The battle of Sellasia (222 B.C.), in which Cleomenes was defeated by the Achaeans and Antigonus Doson of Macedonia, and the death of the king, which occurred shortly afterwards in Egypt, put an end to these hopes.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/SPARTA_Gr_Eirapril_or_AaKe5aty.html (5428 words)

	SULLA (L. CORNELINS AND P. CORNELIUS) - LoveToKnow Article on SULLA (L. CORNELINS AND P. CORNELIUS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Athens, the headquarters of the Mithradatic cause, was taken and sacked in 86; and in the same year, at Chaeroneia, the scene of Philip II.
		Crossing the Hellespont in 84 into Asia, he was joined by the troops of C. Flavius Fimbria, who soon deserted their general, a man sent out by the Marian party, now again in the ascendant at Rome.
		With the death of the younger Marius, who killed himself after the surrender of Praeneste, the civil war was at an end, and Sulla was master of Rome and of the Roman world.
	23.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SU/SULLA_L_CORNELINS_AND_P_CORNELIUS_.htm (2477 words)

	Battle of Nemea (394 BC)
		According to Xenophon, the Boeotians hesitated to start the battle until they were sure it was the Athenians that would be facing the Spartans and they would only have to fight the Spartans' allies.
		The Spartans were on the right of their battle line facing the Athenians and the Boeotians were on the extreme right of their own battle line facing Sparta's allies.
		When they heard the enemies battle chant/song (the paean), the moved forward inclining to their right in an effort to outflank the Athenians.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/nemea.html (1340 words)

	ARGONAUTS - LoveToKnow Article on ARGONAUTS
		After their departure, being driven back the same place by a storm, they were attacked by the Doliones, ho did not recognize them, and in a battle which took place yzicus was killed by Jason.
		Here they found and took on board the four rns of Phrixus who, after their fathers death, had been sent y Aeetes, king of Colchis, to fetch the treasures of Orchomenus, lit had been driven by a storm upon the island.
		Passing near fount Caucasus, they heard the groans of Prometheus and the apping of the wings of the eagle which gnawed his liver.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARGONAUTS.htm (1909 words)

	Civil War and Rebellion - Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar
		Sulla defeats Samnites allied to the popular party in Rome in the decisive battle of the Civil War.
		Triumvirs Marc Antony and Octavian (later to be the first emperor Augustus) fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Marcus Brutus and Cassius.
		Octavian decisively defeats Antony and Cleopatra in a naval battle near Greece.
	www.romanrelics.com /repcivbatt.htm (469 words)

	Battle Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the battle of Thapsus in Africa, against Scipio, Caesar killed ten thousand, lost fifty, and had some wounded.
		In the battle under the walls of Munda in Spain, against one of Pompey's sons, Caesar had eighty cohorts and eight thousand horsemen, about forty-eight thousand men.
		In that battle of exceptional fury, which hung for a long time in the balance, Caesar had one thousand dead, five hundred wounded; Pompey thirty-three thousand dead, and if Munda had not been so near, scarcely two miles away, his losses would have been doubled.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/ardantpietext058btst10/68.html (326 words)

	BELLUM - Colonel Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq - BATTLE STUDIES - ANCIENT AND MODERN BATTLE
		Battle is the final objective of armies and man is the fundamental instrument in battle.
		He hoped that their battle order would be broken up and his own soldiers, well disposed in ranks, would have to fight with sword in hand only men in disorder.
		The battle of Orchomenus, against Archelaus, was a repetition of Chaeronea.
	www.bellum.nu /literature/ardantdupicq003.html (15851 words)

	Appian's Roman History: The Mithridatic Wars
		Being angry with the inhabitants of Chios, one of whose vessels had accidentally run against the royal ship in the naval battle near Rhodes, he first confiscated the goods of all Chians who had fled to Sulla, and then sent persons to inquire what property in Chios belonged to Romans.
		When they had come together he said that the king was suspicious of the city on account of the Roman faction in it, but that he would be satisfied if they would deliver up their arms and give the children of their principal families as hostages.
		When the officers saw his peril they darted from their own ranks to his aid, and the troops, moved by the sense of shame, followed and drove the enemy back in their turn.
	www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_mithridatic_10.html (1643 words)

	Hercules (or Heracles)
		On his return from hunting this lion, Hercules met the envoys of King Erginus of Orchomenus, who were coming to claim the tribute paid to their master by the Thebans.
		Hercules cut off the noses and ears of the members of this embassy; then later, when Erginus marched against Thebes with his army, he challenged him and imposed on him twice the tribute that Erginus had previously demanded from Thebes.
		A battle erupted, Hercules, thinking Hippolyta had betrayed him, killed her.
	www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/hercules_or_heracles.html (3050 words)

	Battle Studies by Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/5)
		battle are found in the account, which sounds no note of desperation.
		The battle of Orchomenus, against Archelaus, was a repetition of
		Ancient battles were picnics, for the victors, who lost nobody.
	www.fullbooks.com /Battle-Studies2.html (13980 words)

	List of Roman battles Details, Meaning List of Roman battles Article and Explanation Guide
		List of Roman battles Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		268 - Battle of Naissus - Claudius, under Emperor Gallienus, decisively defeats the Gots.
		This is an Article on List of Roman battles.
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