Battle of Chaeronea, 338 b.c.e.

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the Macedonian conquest of Greece. Result: Macedonian control of the Greek mainland.

Philip II advanced through Boeotia with a force of 30,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. The Greek army was only slightly smaller, causing the front lines to extend three and one-half miles. Philip’s eighteen-year-old son, Alexander (later the Great), led the Macedonian cavalry, and Philip himself took a position opposite the Theban Sacred Band, the most feared brigade of its time.

Philip made his lines intentionally weak...

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