War at Sea: Modern Theory and Ancient Practice. With Twelve Plans and Charts |
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Abydus action Ægean Alcibiades Alcidas allied fleet armed force arrival Artemisium Astyochus Athenian fleet Athenian navy Athenian squadron Athens attack Attica battle blockade Boeotia Brasidas Callicratidas captured centre Chalcideus Chalcidicé Channel Chian Chios Cnemus coast command Corcyra Corcyræans Corinth Corinthian crews Deceleia defeated Demosthenes detached Diomedon enemy enemy's Ephesus Euboea Eurymedon Euxine expedition favourable fight flank Greek fleet Gulf Gylippus harbour Hellas Hellespont hundred Ibid Ionia Isthmus Lacedæmon Lacedæmonian land force Lesbos Lysander mainland Megara Methymna Miletus military aim Mindarus Mitylene Naupactus neutralise Nicias open sea operations Peloponnesian army Peloponnesian fleet Peloponnesus Persian Pharnabazus Phormio political object port probably put to sea Pylus raid reinforced remained revolt route sailed Salamis Samos sea miles sent Sestus shore Sicily side Spartan Strombichides superior supplies supra Sybota Syracusan Syracuse tactical Themistocles Thrasybulus Thrasyllus threatened Thucydides Tissaphernes trade tributary cities triremes twenty ships victory viii waters weapons wing