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* The army of Thebes under their statesman and general, Pelopidas, defeats Alexander of Pherae in the Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly, but Pelopidas is killed during the battle.
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* 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the return and vengeance of Alexander, and so sent for aid to Thebes, whose policy it was to put a check on any neighbor who might otherwise become too formidable.
The following year, Sparta sent an army into Boeotia, reviving the power of Thebes in order to help hold the Athenians in check.
Tantamani was heavily routed, and the Assyrian army sacked Thebes to such an extent it never truly recovered.
The Athenian mercenary commander Chabrias successfully faced off the larger army of Agesilaus II near Thebes.
* 424 Pagondas of Thebes crushes Athenian army at the Battle of Delium, Brasidas a Spartan general makes a successful campaign, Cleon exiles Thucydides for 20 years for arriving late
The Spartans prepared to send out an army against this new alliance of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos ( with the backing of the Achaemenid Empire ) and ordered Agesilaus II to return to Greece.
Eteocles, however, did not want to give away his power causing Polynices to leave Thebes to set up an army.
After they were convinced that she was their mother, they killed Dirce by tying her to the horns of a bull, gathered an army, and conquered Thebes, becoming its joint rulers.
* The allies, Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos, gather a large army at Corinth.
Nicodemes of Sparta, regent for King Pleistoanax, leads an army of 11, 500 hoplites into Boeotia to help Thebes put down a rebellion by Phocis.
It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters.
After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and as a result, Polynices raised an army ( captained by the eponymous Seven ) of Argives to take Thebes by force.
There is little plot as such ; instead, the bulk of the play consists of rich dialogues that show how the citizens of Thebes feel about the threat of the hostile army before their gates, and also how their king Eteocles feels and thinks about it.
There is also a lengthy description of each of the seven captains that lead the Argive army against the seven gates of the city of Thebes as well as the devices on their respective shields.
Polynices gathered an army and attacked the city of Thebes in a conflict called the Seven Against Thebes.
The Spartans have an army stationed on Thebes ' western frontier, waiting to follow up their diplomatic success by a crushing military attack.
Epaminondas of Thebes arrives with an army, finds the Spartan have retired and follows them.
* After driving off the Spartan army that has threatened Mantinea, Epaminondas of Thebes moves south and crosses the Evrotas River ( the frontier of Sparta ), which no hostile army has breached in historical memory.
This army, however, was a small one compared to the forces of Thebes.
They chose to go first to Thebes, and, aided by Adrastus, they raised an army from Argolis ( the area around Argos ).
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An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.
The Armenian government ’ s stated efforts to strengthen and reform the military are called into question by continuing non-combat deaths and other violent incidents in the army ranks, which have come under greater public scrutiny in 2010.
* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
* 986 – A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of the Gate of Trajan by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron.
* 1121 – Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
Later joining the Roman army, he began his career under the Gothic soldier Gainas.
The Theban army under Pelopidas is said to have been dismayed by an eclipse ( on July 13, 364, see 4th century BC eclipses ), and Pelopidas, leaving the bulk of his army behind, entered Thessaly at the head of three hundred volunteer horsemen and some mercenaries.
* 406 – Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
In 876 under their new leader, Guthrum, the Danes slipped past the English army and attacked and occupied Wareham in Dorset.
After a few centuries, following an incident where the Goths ' women successfully fended off a raid by a neighboring tribe, while the menfolk were off campaigning against Pharaoh Vesosis, the women formed their own army under Marpesia and crossed the Don, invading Asia.
He entered the army at an early age, when Constantius II was emperor of the East, and was sent to serve under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis in Mesopotamia, and magister militum.
In 317 BC he returned with an army of mercenaries under a solemn oath to observe the democratic constitution which was then set up.
* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah ( northern Syria ).
By 667, the Afghan area was under invasion by the Arabs but in 683 Kabul revolted and completely routed the invading army which was led by the Governor of Seistan.
In short order, the powerful army brought under its control the Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, and other tribes of northern Afghanistan.
By 1760, the Maratha groups had coalesced into a big enough army under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau.
Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.
New Turkish forces landed at Bulair and Şarköy but after heavy fighting they were crushed and overthrown by the newly formed 4th Bulgarian army under the command of General Stiliyan Kovachev.
On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ").
In 1941, Ultra exerted a powerful effect on the North African desert campaign, against the German army, under General Erwin Rommel.
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