Cleombrotus, by a javelin-wound, at the battle of Leuctra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Then had come Leuctra and the defeat of the awesome Spartans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

The Theban tried to repeat the tactics of Leuctra: the massed charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

June 12 -- German submarines sink British steamer Leuctra and trawlers.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Leuctra, that they looked like schoolboys who had beaten their master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Nine years after Leuctra he won the Battle of Mantinea, dying on the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

From the victory of Leuctra dates the short but brilliant period of Theban supremacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Archidamus, after the relief of the army defeated at Leuctra, had led back the united forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

They marched as far as Leuctra, a place on their own frontier in the direction of Mount Lycaeum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

After this achievement he advanced from the seaboard and encamped in Leuctra on Thespian territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

France then led Europe, but she lost her ascendency on the first reverse, like Sparta after Leuctra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

It was the gymnopaediae, and the boys were dancing in the theater, when the messengers arrived from Leuctra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Thebans at Leuctra, and the indisputable fact that they had invaded and laid waste the territory of Laconia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

But the day came when, after the disaster which had occurred at Leuctra, the rival powers in conjunction with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agesilaus] Reference

Philip of Macedon watched the cheering crowds as the flower-garlanded heroes of Leuctra marched through the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Unfortunately we do not know, on good authority, how many troops of either arm they had in the field at Leuctra or at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalry General] Reference

Leuctra has been called "the Marathon of the Thebans," as their defensive war was turned by it into a war of conquest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

And that these were, in the fights of Leuctra and Tegyrae, beaten and put to fight by Pelopidas, is confessed; whereas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

At Leuctra and at Mantinea, battles so fatal to the Spartan supremacy in Greece, the defeated armies suffered from panics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

About the same time the Lacedaemonians marched out with all their people to Leuctra upon their frontier, opposite to Mount.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

For all intents and purposes, the Spartans themselves were exhausted by the Peloponnesian War and finished off at Leuctra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and Political Knowledge in Ancient Athens — Why Ancient Athenian Voters Were Not as Ignorant as We Have Been Taught to Think:] Reference

Leuctra, a place belonging to Megalopolis; and the Achaeans quickly coming up to resist him with a good body of men commanded by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Scirophorion, and the Lacedaemonians received their great overthrow at Leuctra, on the fifth of Hecatombaeon, within twenty days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Epaminondas sat alone on the ridge, gazing down at the Spartan army camped on the plain of Leuctra, a day's march east of Thebes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Yet the king always said that he had learned the manoeuvre from Epaminondas, and was only fighting the battle of Leuctra over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

As to the date of its foundation Pausanias (VIII.xxvii. 8) says “a few months after the battle of Leuctra,” before midsummer B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

For the Athenians to this very day keep an annual festival for the battle at Marathon, and the Thebans for that at Leuctra; and so, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Such were the consequences of the battle of Leuctra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

Cloembrotus, the king of Sparta, killed at the battle of Leuctra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome] Reference

(M719) Thebes, ever since the battle of Leuctra, had been opposed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

The two armies met on the memorable plain of Leuctra, near Thespiae.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference

Leuctra and Mantinea, under the celebrated Epaminondas; Leuthen, under.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference

Leuctra, and for a short time the city managed to maintain its supremacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Greeks] Reference

It was the strategy inaugurated by Epaminondas at Leuctra and perfected by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5] Reference

Since the battle of Leuctra the villagers had rebuilt their walls and defied a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

At Leuctra, it simply acted to the right and took the enemy in the flank and in reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle Studies] Reference