Tuesday, July 08, 2008
This Day in the History of Psychotic Nations Being Defeated
On this day in 371 B.C., at the Battle of Leuctra the soldiers of Thebes defeated the soldiers of Sparta. The Spartans had won but been weakened by the Peloponessian War which had ended in 404 B.C. Called the Lacedaemonians in Greece, this loss consigned them to the inevitable ash heap of history. Sic transit...
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