An independent Athens was a minor power in the Hellenistic age ; it rarely had much in the way of foreign policy ; it generally remained at peace, allied either with the Ptolemaic dynasty, or later, with Rome ; when it went to war, the result ( as in the Lamian, Chremonidean, and Mithridatic War ) was usually disastrous.

* 267-262 Chremonidean War.

In the Chremonidean War ( 266-263 ) it passed again to Macedon after a battle fought off its shores.

In 267 BC, probably with encouragement from Egypt, an Athenian by the name of Chremonides persuaded the Athenians to join the Spartans in declaring war on Antigonus ( see Chremonidean War ).

In 267 BC, Ptolemy II persuaded the Greek cities to revolt against Macedon, in what became the Chremonidean War, after the Athenian leader Chremonides.

Areus I ( Ἄρειος Α ') ( died 265 BC ) was Agiad King of Sparta from 309 to 265 BC, who died in battle near Corinth during the Chremonidean War.

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* Marcus Atilius M. f. L. n. Regulus, consul in 267 and consul suffectus in 256 BC, captured during the First Punic War.

In 267 BC Ptolemy II persuaded the Greek cities to revolt against Antigonus, in what became the Chremonidian War, after the Athenian leader Chremonides.

A World War I memorial window ( 1924 ) by Charles William Kelsey depicting a trench scene at St. James United Church ( Montreal ) was dedicated to 32 members who were killed overseas and 267 others who served in the Great War.

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

Guerrilla warfare can be traced back to Sun Tzu, in his The Art of War ( 6th century BCE ).

The Second Punic War ( 218 BCE – 201 BCE ) is most remembered for the Carthaginian Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.

356 BCE saw the outbreak of the Third Sacred War that pitted Phocis against Thebes and its allies.

One remarkable commentary of Herodotus on Pan is that he lived 800 years before himself ( c. 1200 BCE ), this being already after the Trojan War.

The historical timeframe of the Pythian Games starts 582 BCE, when the administration of the Games was handed over to the Delphic Amphiktyonia, a council of the twelve Greek tribes, to end the Holy War in the past.

When Pyrrhus invaded Italy ( 280-278, 275 BCE ), Croton was still a considerable city, with twelve miles of walls, but after the Pyrrhic War, half the city was deserted ( Livy 24. 3 ).

After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War ( 216 BC ), Croton revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years ; it was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BCE.

Before World War II, archaeologists sometimes applied the term " Minyans " differently, to indicate the very first wave of Proto-Greek speakers in the 2nd millennium BCE, among the early Bronze Age cultures sometimes identified with the beginning of Middle Helladic culture.

She sacrificed her hair in exchange for her husband's safe return from the Third Syrian War, which began in 246 BCE.

During the Social War ( 358 – 355 BCE ) he accused Aristophon, then one of the most influential men at Athens, of malpractices, and impeached Philocrates ( 343 BCE ) for high treason.

His speeches are believed to have led to the outbreak of the Lamian War ( 323 – 322 BCE ) in which Athens, Aetolia, and Thessaly revolted against Macedonian rule.

Additionally, the defeat of the Athenians and the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War in 431-404 BCE resulted in a short-lived Spartan dominance of the Greek world from 404 to 371 BCE.

Lysander was the Spartan who after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE established many of the foreign pro-Spartan governments throughout the Aegean.

Among the classics of military science, The Art of War by Sun Tzu ( 6th century BCE ) was perhaps the first to outline guidelines for effective international diplomacy.

Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War ( about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina ), The Jugurthine War ( about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE ), and the Histories ( of which only fragments survive ).

The Greek historian Thucydides wrote in his History of the Peloponnesian War of how, in 416 BCE, Athens attacked Melos for refusing to submit tribute and refusing to join Athens ' alliance against Sparta.

The invasion of Melos occurred during the second phase of the Peloponnesian War ( 431 to 404 BCE ).

The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.