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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 209 Book 4, Chapter 12

Meanwhile, Demosthenes saw that the Spartans were preparing to attack him simultaneously by both sea and land, and he too made his preparations. He hauled up the remaining ships from those that had been left with him and positioned them beneath the f...

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