The Destruction of the Athenian Army during the Peloponnesian War, From 415 to 413 BC. From 414 BC, Darius II, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire had started to resent increasing Athenian power in the Aegean and had his satrap Tissaphernes enter into an alliance with Sparta against Athens, which in 412 BC led to the Persian reconquest of the greater part of Ionia.
'The Illustrated History of the World' Published by Ward; Lock & Co; 1890
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Location: Syracuse Sicily
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