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LEUCTRA , a See also:village of See also:Boeotia in the territory of Thespiac, chiefly noticeable for the See also:battle fought in its neighbourhood in 371 B.C. between the Thebans and the Spartans and their See also:allies. A Peloponnesian See also:army, about 1o,000 strong, which had invaded Boeotia from See also:Phocis, was here confronted by a Boeotian See also:levy of perhaps 6000 soldiers under See also:Epaminondas (q.v.). In spite of inferior See also:numbers and the doubtful See also:loyalty of his Boeotian allies, Epaminondas offered battle on the See also:plain before the See also:town. Massing his See also:cavalry and the 50-deep See also:column of Theban See also:infantry on his See also:left wing, he sent forward this See also:body in advance of his centre and right wing. After a cavalry engagement in which the Thebans drove their enemies off the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, the decisive issue was fought out between the Theban and Spartan See also:foot. The latter, though fighting well, could not sustain in their 12-deep formation the heavy impact of their opponents' column, and were hurled back with a loss of about 2000 men, of whom 700 were Spartan citizens, including the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king Cleombrotus. Seeing their right wing beaten, the See also:rest of the Peloponnesians retired and left the enemy in See also:possession of the field. Owing to the arrival of a Thessalian army under See also:Jason of Pherae, whose friendship they did not See also:trust, the Thebans were unable to exploit their victory. But the battle is none the less of See also:great significance in See also:Greek See also:history. It marks a revolution in military See also:tactics, affording the first known instance of a deliberate concentration of attack upon the vital point of the enemy's See also:line. Its See also:political effects were equally far-reaching, for the loss in material strength and See also:prestige which the Spartans here sustained deprived them for ever of their
supremacy in See also:Greece.
AuraoRrrres.—See also:Xenophon, Hellenica, vi. 4. 3-15; Diodorus xi. 53-56; See also:Plutarch, See also:Pelopidas, chs. 20-23; See also:Pausanias ix. 13. 2-10; G. B. See also:Grundy, The See also:Topography of the Battle of See also:Plataea (See also:London, 1894), pp. 73-76; H. See also:Delbruck, Geschichte der Kriegskunst (See also:Berlin„ 1900), i. 130 if. (M. O. B.
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