"expedition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Etruscans would later join the failed Athenian expedition against Syracuse in 415 BC, which contributed even further to their decline.
- Syracuse gained Sparta and Corinth as allies, and as a result the Athenian expedition was defeated.
- It was mainly the eloquence of Gorgias of Leontini which led to the abortive Athenian expedition of 427 BC.
- The first Athenian expedition to Sicily ended badly.
- The Athenian expedition, led by Mantias, still landed at Methone on the Macedonian coast, with 3,000 mercenary troops.
- Hyperion had quoted the words of some human intellectual, comparing the course of humanity to the disastrous Athenian expedition to Syracuse, some twenty-four centuries earlier.
- The Athenian expedition, for instance.
- Kagan criticizes Alcibiades for failing to recognize that the large size of the Athenian expedition undermined the diplomatic scheme on which his strategy rested.
- The second phase, an Athenian expedition to attack Syracuse in Sicily achieved no tangible result other than a large loss of Athenian ships and men.
- The Athenian expedition against Syracuse was thus, as we shall see, not altogether hopeless in its aims, which certainly included the manipulation of the hatred of these groups for each other.
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