Battle of Leuctra

Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the Wars for Greek Hegemony. Result: Theban victory resulting in the deaths of 500 Spartans and 300 Thebans.

In 371 b.c.e., a Spartan army led by King Cleombrotus invaded Boeotia, seeking to prevent Theban dominance over the region. The Spartans met the Theban army under Epaminondas on the plains of Leuctra. Cleombrotus arranged the Spartans in a shallow crescent formation, twelve ranks deep across the battle line. Facing numerical superiority, Epaminondas made his phalanx advance in oblique formation, loading...

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