Battle of Potidaea - Battle of Potidaea The Battle of Potidaea was, with the Battle of Sybota, one of the catalysts for the Peloponnesian War. It was fought near Potidaea in 432 BC between Athens and a combined army from Corinth and Potidaea, along with their various allies. Battle of Potidaea Conflict Pre-Peloponnesian War Date 432 BC Place Potidaea Result Athenian victory Combatants Athens Corinth Potidaea Commanders Archestratus Callias†Aristeus Strength 70 ships 3000 hoplites 2000 hoplites Casualties 150 men 300 men Potidaea was a colony of Corinth on the Chalcidice peninsula, but was a member of the Delian League and paid tribute to Athens. After Sybota, Athens demanded that Potidaea pull down part of its walls, expel Corinthian ambassadors, and send hostages to Athens. Athens was afraid that Potidaea.
Battle of Sybota - Battle of Sybota The Battle of Sybota took place in 433 BC between Corcyra and Corinth. It was one of the immediate catalysts for the Peloponnesian War, which had been brewing for decades. Battle of Sybota Conflict Pre-Peloponnesian War Date 433 BC Place Near Corcyra Result Indecisive Combatants Corcyra Athens Corinth Commanders Miciades Aisimides Eurybatus Lacedaimonius Diotimus Proteas Xenoclides Strength 120 ships 150 ships Casualties 1250 prisoners Unknown dead Unknown Corinth had been in dispute with Corcyra, an old Corinthian colony which no longer wanted to remain under Corinthian influence. Corcyra, which had the largest navy in Greece at the time, allied with Athens, an enemy of Corinth (which was allied with Sparta). Athens sent ten ships to Corcyra to reinforce the Corcyraean fleet, with instructions.
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432 BC - Sparta against Athens begin. Athens adopts 19-year cycle of synchronizing solar and lunar calendars. Battle of Potidaea..
Alcibiades - Cleinias and Deinomache, who belonged to the family of the Alcmaeonidae. He was a near relative of Pericles, who, after the death of Cleinias at the Battle of Coronea (447 BC), became his guardian. Thus early deprived of his father's control, possessed of great personal beauty and the heir to great wealth, which was increased by his marriage, he showed himself self-willed, capricious and passionate, and indulged in the most insolent behaviour. Nor did the instructors of his early manhood supply the corrective which his boyhood lacked. From Protagoras, Prodicus, and others he learnt to laugh at the common ideas of justice, temperance, holiness and patriotism. The laborious thought, the ascetic life of his master Socrates, he was able to admire, but not to imitate or practise. On the contrary, his.
Artabazus - of the generals in Xerxes' invasion of Greece, in charge of the reserve forces guarding the route back to Asia, and responsible for suppressing a revolt in Potidaea. The invasion ended with Mardonius, ignoring advice from Artabazus and others, met the Greeks in pitched battle at Plataea, and was defeated (479 BC). The Greeks followed up their victory by sailing to Ionia, where they destroyed the garrisoning forces under Tigranes at Mycale in the same year. Artabazus, however, managed to lead a large portion of the Persian army out of Greece and back to Ionia. As a reward, Artabazus was made satrap of Phrygia. This office was passed down to his descendants. He was either succeeded by his son Pharnbazus, who is mostly unknown, or by his grandson Pharnaces, who is.
Timeline of Ancient Greece - Egypt ;507:Cleisthenes, Greek reformer, takes power, increases democracy ;490:Themistocles and Miltiades, Athenians, defeat Darius at Marathon, Phidippides runs with news ;484:Aeschylus, Athenian playwright, wins Athenian Prize ;480:Leonidas, Spartan, makes sacrifice of 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae so main force can escape, Xerxes son of Darius is leading the Persians ;480:Simultaenous with Thermopylae, the Greeks and Persians fight to a draw in the naval Battle of Artemisium ;480:Battle of Salamis - Themistocles, Athenian general, lures Persians into Bay of Salamis, Xerxes loses and goes home, leaves behind Mardonius ;479:Pausanias, Greek general routs Mardonius at the Battle of Plataea ;479:Battle of Mycale frees Greek colonies in Asia. After the Battle of Salamis, Athens set up the Delian League, treasury on island of Delos, a confederacy of cities around the Aegean. It.
Socrates - Socratic studies how Socrates's paradoxical claim about ignorance and wisdom could provide the foundations for his moral beliefs. Socrates left no writings; references to military duty may be found in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. He was the main character of Aristophanes's play The Clouds, produced when Socrates was in his midforties. Socrates appeared in other plays by Aristophanes, and also in plays by Callias, Eupolis and Telecleides, in all of which Socrates and the Sophists were criticised for “the moral dangers inherent in contemporary thought and literature”. The main source of the historical Socrates, however, is the writings of his two disciples, Xenophon, and Plato. Another important source is various references to him in Aristotle's writings. Socrates's father was Sophroniscus, a sculptor, and his mother Phaenarete, a midwife. He.
Peloponnesian War - power, took the leadership of the league and controlled its treasury. Over the following decades, Athens was able to convert the Delian league into an Athenian empire. This increase in Athenian military power allowed it to challenge the Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the Spartans), who, as leaders of the Peloponnesian League, had long been the sole major military power in Greece. The immediate cause of the war comprised several specific actions of Athens that affected Sparta's allies, notably Corinth. The Athenian navy intervened in a dispute between Corinth and Corcyra, preventing Corinth from invading Corcyra at the Battle of Sybota, and placed Potidaea, a Corinthian colony, under siege. The Athenian Empire also levied economic sanctions against Megara, an ally of Sparta. These sanctions, known as the Megaran decree, were largely ignored.
Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport - Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport is an airport in Kalamazoo, Michigan, near Battle Creek, Michigan. It has the IATA Airport Code AZO. The following airlines fly to Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport: Air Wisconsin dba United Express American Eagle Atlantic Coast Airlines dba Delta Connection Atlantic Coast Airlines dba United Express Comair dba Delta Connection Commutair dba Continental Connection Mesaba Airlines dba Northwest Airlink Northwest Airlines Pinnacle Airlines dba Northwest Airlink External Links Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport Homepage.
Korean War order of battle - Korean War order of battle This is a Korean War order of battle. It is a list of units and commands that took part in the Korean War from 1950-53. On this page are listed the major commands that took part in operations. Subsidiary commands are listed on sub-pages of this, as to list all subsidiary commands on one page would be too complicated. Where no date is shown for a command, assume it present at the start of the war, on June 25 1950. General Headquarters United Nations Command - Formally activated 10 July 1950, before then Allied forces were formally under American operational control. US Army Forces Far East US Eighth Army US X Corps September 15 1950-December 24 1950 Republic of Korea Army ROK I Corps.
Japanese battleship Yamato - Isoroku Yamamoto from February 12, 1942. Replaced as flagship by the Musashi she spent much of 1943 in harbor at Truk. The anti-aircraft defences were greatly increased in 1943 at Kure but as she returned to Truk on December 25, 1943 she was badly damaged by a torpedo from USS Skate and was not fully repaired until April 1944. She returned to the conflict and joined the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June) and the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Samar Gulf (October), during which she first fired her main guns. She returned home in November and her AA was again upgraded over the winter. Attacked in the Inland Sea on March 19, 1945 by carrier aircraft from Task Force 58 attacking Kure she suffered little damage..
Japanese battleship Musashi - class of battleships ever constructed. She formed part of Vice-Admiral Takeo Kurita's Centre Force along with Yamato at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. During the battle, on October 22,1944 she was attacked and sunk by American carrier-based aircraft armed with bombs and torpedoes, taking more than 1000 of her 2900 crew with her. For more details on this class of ship, see the entry for Yamato..
Kalimantaan - of the events described actually took place, one cannot simply change the names and read the novel as history. James Brooke's mother died in 1844, two years after he became Rajah. Gideon's mother dies in Borneo much earlier while he is in grade school in England, providing him an emotional link to Borneo James Brooke did not have. James Brooke never married a European, although there is evidence that he was married to a Malay woman. Gideon Barr marries an Englishwoman to provide himself an "air of permanence" as Rajah and we see much of the later portion of the story through Amelia Barr's eyes. Gideon also maintains a Malayan mistress who provides a note of tragedy in the way her presence poisons Gideon and Amelia's relationship. On the other hand,.
Vern Clark - McCloy (FF 1038), USS Spruance (DD 963), the Atlantic Fleet's Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center, Destroyer Squadron Seventeen, and Destroyer Squadron Five. After being selected for flag rank, Admiral Clark commanded the Carl Vinson Battle Group/Cruiser Destroyer Group Three, the Second Fleet, and the United States Atlantic Fleet. Ashore, Admiral Clark first served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Systems Analysis Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. He later completed assignments as the Administrative Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Surface Warfare) and as the Administrative Aide to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. He served as Head of the Cruiser-Destroyer Combat Systems Requirements Section and Force Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer for the Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and he directed the Joint.
Karl August von Hardenberg - and when in 1803 the latter went away on leave (August-October) he appointed Hardenberg his locum tenens. It was a critical period. Napoleon had just occupied Hanover, and Haugwitz had urged upon the king the necessity for strong measures and the expediency of a Russian alliance; During his absence, however, the king's irresolution continued; he clung to the policy of neutrality which had so far seemed to have served Prussia so well; and Hardenberg contented himself with adapting himself to the royal will. By the time Haugwitz returned, the unyielding attitude of Napoleon had caused the king to make advances to Russia; but the mutual declarations of the 3rd and 25th of May 1804 only pledged the two powers to take up arms in the event of a French attack upon.
Karbala - people. Husain, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad by his daughter Fatima and Ali Abu-Taleb, was killed in the Battle of Karbala on the 10th day of the month of Muharram in 61 A.H. (680 A.D.) and buried in Karbala. His tomb is a place of pilgrimage for many Shi'a Muslims, especially on the anniversary of the battle..
Kavala - the 6th century BC, who called it Neapolis ("new city"). Gold mines in the Pangaion hills nearby made it prosperous. It became a Roman civitas in 168 BC, and was a base for Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC, before their defeat in the Battle of Philippi. The Apostle Paul landed at Kavala on his first voyage to Europe, and in Byzantine times the city was renamed Christoupolis. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1371 to 1912. Mehmet Ali was born here in 1769. Some of it's most recognisable landmarks is a Venecian castle, in the hill of Panagia, and an aquaduct built by Suleiman I during his reign. The later serves still today as a city logo. It is a twin city of Nuremberg. Postage stamps Between 1893.
Karel Doorman - around the Dutch East Indies. This fleet consisted of cruisers and destroyers. In February 1942 a battle was fought between the Combined Strike Force and a much stronger Japanese task force in the Java Sea. This battle proved a disaster for the Allies. Doorman became a Dutch maritime icon, after transmitting his last words to the fleet: "I am attacking, all ships follow me!" ("Ik val aan, alle schepen volg mij!"). Karel Doorman died when his flagship De Ruyter (named after the famous Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter) was struck by a torpedo and went under. There was time to escape the sinking flagship, but Doorman chose to go under, according to old naval tradition. In his honour the only Dutch carrier ever was named Hr. Ms. Karel Doorman. This ship.
Vercingetorix - Roman legions from living off the land. Caesar and his chief lieutenant Labienus lost the initial minor engagements, but captured the tribal capital at Avaricum (Bourges), and then overtook and encircled Vercingetorix at the Battle of Alesia. Vercingetorix summoned his Gallic allies to attack the besieging Romans, prompting Caesar to build a legendary doughnut-shaped fortification: an inner wall and siegecraft to attack the Arvernian garrison, and an outer defensive perimeter to protect against the attempted relief. Caesar decisively defeated both forces. Vercingetorix was captured and imprisoned in the Tullianum in Rome for five years, before being publicly displayed and beheaded as part of Caesar's triumph in 46 BC. Yonge, Charlotte M. (1864). The Chief of the Arverni. In Charlotte M. Yonge, A Book of Golden Deeds, London: Blackie & Son, Ltd.,.
