58 - Agesilaus I: Persian Expedition
Cost of Glory
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The Battle of Coronetta
Xenophon wrote about the battle of Coronetta that there was no other battle like this one in all our times. Not since Agisaleus's youth at Manta Nea more than two decades ago have so many Greeks lined up their spears to try them against each other. Thebans, Athenians, Argives, Corinthians, Aynionians, Eubians and both the Lachrian tribes are on his side. There's a small vanguard of Spartan mened arms together with Peloponnesian forces as well as some rebel beotions from Orkominus who recently joined and turned against their former Theban masters.
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