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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 312 Book 5, Chapter 16

That same summer, Alcibiades son of Clinias, who had recently become one of Athens' generals, coordinated with the Argives and their allies to launch a campaign into the Peloponnese. He took with him a modest force of Athenian heavy infantry and arch...

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