The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to WaterlooHarper & Brothers, 1851 - Всего страниц: 364 |
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... Athens , seems to me inferior in interest to the defeat before Syracuse , where Athens received her first fatal check , and after which she only struggled to retard her downfall . I think simi- larly of Zama with respect to Carthage ...
... Athens , seems to me inferior in interest to the defeat before Syracuse , where Athens received her first fatal check , and after which she only struggled to retard her downfall . I think simi- larly of Zama with respect to Carthage ...
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... Athenian officers was summoned on the slope of one of the mountains that look over the plain of Marathon , on the ... Athens , one for each of the local tribes into which the Athenians were divided . Each general led the men of his ...
... Athenian officers was summoned on the slope of one of the mountains that look over the plain of Marathon , on the ... Athens , one for each of the local tribes into which the Athenians were divided . Each general led the men of his ...
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... Athens in the bold march against Sardis nine years before , had fallen in the last few days ; and the Athenian generals could discern from the heights the island of Ægilia , in which the Persians had depos- ited their Eretrian prisoners ...
... Athens in the bold march against Sardis nine years before , had fallen in the last few days ; and the Athenian generals could discern from the heights the island of Ægilia , in which the Persians had depos- ited their Eretrian prisoners ...
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... Athens , and had owed to an Athenian army the rescue of her independence . Now when it was noised over Greece that the Mede had come from the uttermost parts of the earth to destroy Athens , the brave Platæans , unsolicited , marched ...
... Athens , and had owed to an Athenian army the rescue of her independence . Now when it was noised over Greece that the Mede had come from the uttermost parts of the earth to destroy Athens , the brave Platæans , unsolicited , marched ...
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... Athens . See Thucydides , lib . iii . , secs . 53-60 . * At the battle of Platæa , eleven years after Marathon , each of the eight thousand Athenian regular infantry who served them was attended by a light - armed slave . - Herod ...
... Athens . See Thucydides , lib . iii . , secs . 53-60 . * At the battle of Platæa , eleven years after Marathon , each of the eight thousand Athenian regular infantry who served them was attended by a light - armed slave . - Herod ...
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