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![Battle of Thermopylae](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1134.png?v=1698342363)
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Battle of Thermopylae
Thermopylae is a mountain pass near the sea in northern Greece which was the site of several battles in antiquity, the most famous being that between Persians and Greeks in August 480 BCE. Despite being greatly inferior in numbers, the Greeks...
![Battle of Wattignies](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16849.jpg?v=1710869829)
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Battle of Wattignies
The Battle of Wattignies was a significant battle in the War of the First Coalition, part of the wider French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). It was fought on 15-16 October 1793 between a ragtag army of the First French Republic and a professional...
![The Delian League, Part 2: From Eurymedon to the Thirty Years Peace (465/4-445/4 BCE)](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1260.png?v=1711380786)
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The Delian League, Part 2: From Eurymedon to the Thirty Years Peace (465/4-445/4 BCE)
This text is part of an article series on the Delian League. The second phase of the Delian League's operations begins with the Hellenic victory over Mede forces at Eurymedon and ends with the Thirty Years Peace between Athens and Sparta...
![Battle of Raismes](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16765.jpg?v=1710869890)
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Battle of Raismes
The Battle of Raismes was a major engagement in the Flanders Campaign of 1792-1795, during the War of the First Coalition (1792-1797). It saw a French Republican army under the command of General Dampierre attack a larger Coalition force...
![Battle of Jemappes](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16454.jpg?v=1710869946)
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Battle of Jemappes
The Battle of Jemappes was a decisive battle in the War of the First Coalition (1792-97), part of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). On 6 November 1792, a French army under General Charles-François Dumouriez defeated an Austrian force...
![The Hellenistic World: The World of Alexander the Great](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/797.jpg?v=1711887663)
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The Hellenistic World: The World of Alexander the Great
The Hellenistic World (from the Greek word Hellas for Greece) is the known world after the conquests of Alexander the Great and corresponds roughly with the Hellenistic Period of ancient Greece, from 323 BCE (Alexander's death) to the annexation...
![Battle of Plataea](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1199.png?v=1672338243)
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Battle of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea was a land battle between Greeks and Persians near the small town of Plataea in Boeotia in 479 BCE. Following up their naval victory at the Battle of Salamis in September 480 BCE against the same enemy, the Greeks again...
![Battle of Wagram](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17730.jpg?v=1710869884)
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Battle of Wagram
The Battle of Wagram (5-6 July 1809) was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It resulted in a pyrrhic victory for French Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) whose army crossed the Danube River...
![Battle of Cannae](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/12039.png?v=1713910928)
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Battle of Cannae
The Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BCE) was the decisive victory of the Carthaginian army over Roman forces at Cannae, southeast Italy, during the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca (l. 247-183 BCE), who...
![Battle of Waterloo](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17966.png?v=1697578629)
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in...