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Iphicrates' Military Contributions
Innovations and Strategies of an Athenian General
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Iphicrates is credited with important infantry reforms that included increasing the length of peltasts' weapons, reducing defensive armor, and introducing lighter shields and armor such as the linen linothorax.
He also developed lightweight soldiers' boots known as Iphicratides.
His tactics and reforms were highly influential, contributing to the development of the Macedonian phalanx used by Philip II and Alexander the Great.
Iphicrates was a skilled commander who used his peltasts effectively in various battles, including the Corinthian War, where he nearly annihilated a battalion of Spartan hoplites.
He also developed lightweight soldiers' boots known as Iphicratides.
His tactics and reforms were highly influential, contributing to the development of the Macedonian phalanx used by Philip II and Alexander the Great.
Iphicrates was a skilled commander who used his peltasts effectively in various battles, including the Corinthian War, where he nearly annihilated a battalion of Spartan hoplites.
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