When Amyntas sought Spartan aid against the growing threat of Olynthus, the Spartans eagerly responded.

When Philip created the league of the Greeks on the pretext of unifying Greece against Persia, the Spartans chose not to join — they had no interest in joining a pan-Greek expedition if it was not under Spartan leadership.

When Callicratidas attacked him, Conon retreated to Mytilene, where he was blockaded by Callicratidas ’ Spartan fleet.

* When Philopoemen reenters Laconia for a second attempt, his forces are ambushed by the Spartan tyrant, Nabis, but nevertheless Philopoemen manages to gain a victory over the Spartan forces.

When Callicratidas attacks him, Conon is forced back to Mytilene, where he is blockaded by Callicratidas ' Spartan fleet.

When the Spartan garrison of Athens, supported by Athenian cavalry, was sent out to oppose him, Thrasybulus led his force, now 700 strong, in a surprise daybreak raid on their camp, killing 120 Spartans and putting the rest to flight.

When Tiribazus was replaced by Struthas, a bitter enemy of the Spartan king, Conon was allowed to escape, and died soon afterwards at Cyprus.

* When the Messenian helots ( serfs ) revolt against their Spartan masters following the severe earthquake, King Archidamus II organises the defence of Sparta.

When Theramenes again objected that this number was still too small, the leaders arranged for a military review to be staged after which the citizens were ordered to pile their arms ; with the help of the Spartan garrison, the oligarchs then confiscated all arms except those belonging to the 3, 000.

When Athens was defeated by Sparta at the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Melian survivors, who had been resettled by Sparta, were restored to their homes by the Spartan general Lysander.

When the Athenian emissaries delivered an ultimatum to the Spartans the next day, they were amazed to hear that a task force was in fact already en route ; the Spartan army was marching to meet the Persians.

When Spartan power was destroyed in the 3rd century BC, Mani was self-governing for a time before being absorbed into the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC.

When the Athenian emissaries delivered an ultimatum to the Spartans the next day, they were amazed to hear that a task force was in fact already en route ; the Spartan army was marching to meet the Persians.

When Mardonius learned of the Spartan force, he completed the destruction of Athens, tearing down whatever was left standing.

When these negotiations failed, the Athenians retained possession of the Spartan ships on a pretext, and settled in to besiege the hoplites on Sphacteria ; eventually, in the Battle of Sphacteria, those hoplites were captured and taken as hostages to Athens.

When the Spartan fleet arrived, the Spartans prepared to blockade the entrance to the harbor by placing hoplites on the island of Sphacteria, which was in the middle of the entrance, and planned to place ships in the gaps on either side of that island when the Athenian fleet arrived.

When he emerged with his force, the Spartans, in disbelief, abandoned their defenses ; the Athenians seized the approaches to the fort, and the Spartan force stood on the brink of annihilation.

When it first opened in 1956, its original mascot was the Spartan.

When John Hannah became president of Michigan State College in 1941, he commissioned assistant professor of art Leonard D. Jungwirth to design a statue of an athletic Spartan warrior.

When, in 411 BC, Thasos revolted again during the Peloponnesian War, a Spartan governor assumed power on the island, suggesting the Thasians, rather than suing for peace, prevailed over Athens.

When a child is born who possesses the Mage Gift, a child of this sort is taken from their parents by the government at the age of seven, similar to how Spartan boys were taken in during the golden age of Spartan culture, and the family receives a dower-portion as a compensation for the loss of a child.

When Philopoemen re-entered Laconia for a second attempt, his forces were ambushed by Nabis, but nevertheless Philopoemen managed to gain a victory over the Spartan forces.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

When this and other units combined to form the present group, it was taken on as a continuing fund-raiser.

* In linear algebra, an endomorphism of a vector space V is a linear operator V → V. An automorphism is an invertible linear operator on V. When the vector space is finite-dimensional, the automorphism group of V is the same as the general linear group, GL ( V ).

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

When Claudius decided to marry her, he persuaded a group of senators that the marriage should be arranged in the public interest.

When a group of different plant species was prompted by a variety of different stress signals, such as drought or cold, each plant responded uniquely.

When compressed at room temperature to 7 GPa, α-berkelium transforms to the beta modification, which has a face-centered cubic ( fcc ) symmetry and space group Fmm.

When two monosaccharides undergo dehydration synthesis, water is produced, as two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom are lost from the two monosaccharides ' hydroxyl group.

When a player removes a large group ( four bubbles or more ) some of those removed are transferred to the opponent's arena, usually delaying their efforts to remove all the bubbles from their individual arena.

Haley historian Chris Gardner, as well as surviving members of the group, have confirmed that the two singles: " Out Where the West Winds Blow "/" Who's Gonna Kiss You When I'm Gone " ( Vogue R736 ) and " Boogie Woogie Yodel "/" Baby I Found Out All About You " ( Vogue R786 ) do not feature Haley.

When a carboxyl group is deprotonated, its conjugate base, a carboxylate anion is formed.

When the sheriff returned to Cadillac, a force consisting of several hundred armed men was assembled ; this group reportedly included a brass band.

When Beaux arrived in Paris, the Impressionists, a group of artists who had begun their own series of independent exhibitions from the official Salon in 1874, were beginning to lose their solidarity.

When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.

When Rachel Summers leads a group of X-Men in a fight against Wolverine and the Avengers in Indonesia, Rachel finds Hope, but her mind is drawn to the psychic plane where she meets Professor X.

When working together as a group, these player characters ( PCs ) are often described as a ' party ' of adventurers, with each member often having his or her own areas of specialty that contributes to the success of the whole.

When the orchestra stops playing ( which is often in the summer ), orchestral bassists have to find other work, either as a teacher or coach, or in another group.

When payment was not forthcoming for the first story he sold to Gernsback, Wollheim formed a group with several other authors, and successfully sued for payment.

When we wish to assert that is a group ( for example, when stating a theorem ), we say that " is a group under ".

When it declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face group at midnight of 31 December 1975, the Holy See refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

When the group of covalently bound atoms bears a net charge, the group is referred to more properly as a polyatomic ion or a complex ion.