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* Callicratidas is appointed as the navarch of the Spartan fleet, replacing Lysander.
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Callicratidas and is
When Callicratidas attacks him, Conon is forced back to Mytilene, where he is blockaded by Callicratidas ' Spartan fleet.
The Spartan force is soundly defeated, and Callicratidas is killed.
Callicratidas and appointed
In 406 BC, Callicratidas was appointed as the navarch of the Spartan fleet, replacing Lysander.
Callicratidas and navarch
However, Lysander ceased to be the Spartan navarch after this victory and, in accordance with the Spartan law, was replaced by Callicratidas.
The superior Athenian numbers, combined with the tactics they had implemented, created a dangerous situation for the Spartans, and Callicratidas ' helmsman advised him to retire without a fight, but the navarch insisted on pushing on.
Because of term limits on the position of navarch, Lysander was replaced by Callicratidas ; on the Athenian side, the fall of Alcibiades also brought down his friends Thrasybulus and Theramenes, and the overall command was given to Conon.
Callicratidas and Spartan
The Spartan fleet under Callicratidas lost 70 ships and the Athenians lost 25 ships.
When Callicratidas attacked him, Conon retreated to Mytilene, where he was blockaded by Callicratidas ’ Spartan fleet.
The blockade of Conon by the Spartans was broken, the Spartan force was soundly defeated and Callicratidas was killed during the battle.
In the battle, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas.
Callicratidas was a traditionalist Spartan, distrustful of Persian influence and reluctant to ask for support from the Persian prince Cyrus, who had been a strong supporter of Lysander.
Heated fighting ensued for some time, but eventually Callicratidas, leading the Spartan right, was killed when his ship rammed an opposing ship, and resistance on the right collapsed.
Conon was still blockaded at Mytilene by 50 Spartan ships, and decisive action against those ships could lead to their destruction before they had a chance to join the remainder of Callicratidas ' fleet.
Callicratidas and fleet
In 406 BC, Callicratidas assembled a fleet and sailed to Methymna, Lesbos, which he then besieged.
Callicratidas assembles a fleet and sails to Methymna, on Lesbos, to which he lays siege.
In the next year, however, he did sail as a trierarch in the scratch Athenian relief fleet sent out to relieve Conon, who had been blockaded with 40 triremes at Mytilene by Callicratidas.
Thus, Callicratidas was forced to assemble his fleet and funding by seeking contributions from Sparta's allies among the Greek cities of the region.
Callicratidas, once he had assembled his fleet, sailed against Methymna, on Lesbos, which he laid siege to and stormed.
From Methymna, Callicratidas could potentially move to capture the rest of Lesbos, which clear the way for him to move his fleet to the Hellespont, where he would be athwart the all-important Athenian grain supply line ; to defend Lesbos, Conon was forced to move his numerically inferior fleet from Samos to the Hekatonnesi islands near Methymna.
When Callicratidas attacked him, however, with a fleet that had swelled to a size of 170 ships, Conon was forced to flee to Mytilene, where he was blockaded with his fleet after losing 30 ships in a clash at the mouth of the harbor.
Callicratidas, who had sailed south to Malea with most of his fleet upon learning of the Athenians ' movements, spotted their signal fires and planned to attack them by night, but was prevented from doing so by a thunderstorm, and so was forced to delay his attack until morning.
At dawn the next day, Callicratidas led his fleet out to meet the Athenians.
Dividing his force in two to meet the threat of encirclement, Callicratidas led his fleet into battle.
The fleet, now stationed at Chios, was in poor condition, Spartans at home were discouraged, and supporters of Callicratidas were displeased by the notion that his rival Lysander would rise to power again if the war were to continue ( Sparta's allies in the Aegean were demanding his return ).
Over the next year, the fleets clashed twice, first in a battle where, with twice as many ships as Conon, Callicratidas defeated the Athenians and trapped them in Mytilene ; an Athenian relief fleet then decisively defeated and killed Callicratidas at Arginusae.
Callicratidas and Lysander
Callicratidas ' ability to continue the war at sea was neatly sabotaged when Lysander returned all the cash in hand to Cyrus when he left office
So Cyrus put all his means at the disposal of Lysander in the Peloponnesian War, but denied them to his successor Callicratidas.
At Sparta, meanwhile, traditionalists who had supported Callicratidas pressed for peace with Athens, knowing that a continuation of the war would lead to the re-ascendence of their opponent Lysander.
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