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The Peloponnesian War

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Day 241 Book 4, Chapter 13

After the Athenians and their collaborators inside Megara had coordinated both their signals and timing, they sailed under cover of darkness to Minoa, the island fortress off Megara. Hippocrates commanded six hundred hoplites who took up position in ...

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