General

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Gn. Marcius Coriolanus

Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus: Roman aristocrat and legendary commander of the armies of the Volsci, who invaded Central-Italy in the first quarter of the fifth century BCE.The early fifth century …

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Dâdarši (1)

Dâdarši: name of an Armenian general serving under the Persian king Darius I the Great (522-486 BCE), known for his expedition along the Tigris to Armenia. …

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Datis

Datis (Elamite Datiya, Old Persian *Dâtiça): Median general, commander of the Persian troops in the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. …

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Gaius Dillius Vocula

Gaius Dillius Vocula (†70 CE): Roman army commander, one of Rome's heroes during the Batavian revolt (69-70).Gaius Dillius Vocula was born in Córdoba in Andalusia as the son of an otherwise unknown Roman knight named Aulus Dillius. His son probably…

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Epaminondas

Epaminondas (†362): Theban general, famous for improvements of the phalanx.After the Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta was the leading power in Greece. Immediately, it started to support the revolt of Cyrus the Younger against the Persian king Artaxerxes II…

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