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CHAPTER XIII. Seventh and Eighth Years of the War—End of Corcyraean Revolution— Peace of Gela—Capture of Nisaea
The same summer, directly after these events, the Athenians made an expedition against the territ...
CHAPTER XII. Seventh Year of the War—Occupation of Pylos—Surrender of the Spartan Army in Sphacteria
Next summer, about the time of the corn's coming into ear, ten Syracusan and as many Locrian vess...
CHAPTER XI. Year of the War—Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece—Ruin of Ambracia
Summer was now over. The winter following, the plague a second time attacked the Athenians; for a...
CHAPTER X. Fifth Year of the War—Trial and Execution of the Plataeans— Corcyraean Revolution
During the same summer, after the reduction of Lesbos, the Athenians under Nicias, son of Nicerat...
CHAPTER IX. Fourth and Fifth Years of the War—Revolt of Mitylene
The next summer, just as the corn was getting ripe, the Peloponnesians and their allies invaded A...
CHAPTER VIII. Third Year of the War—Investment of Plataea—Naval Victories of Phormio—Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces
The next summer the Peloponnesians and their allies, instead of invading Attica, marched against ...
CHAPTER VII. Second Year of the War—The Plague of Athens—Position and Policy of Pericles—Fall of Potidaea
Such was the funeral that took place during this winter, with which the first year of the war cam...
CHAPTER VI. Beginning of the Peloponnesian War—First Invasion of Attica—Funeral Oration of Pericles
The war between the Athenians and Peloponnesians and the allies on either side now really begins....
CHAPTER V. Second Congress at Lacedaemon—Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes—Cylon—Pausanias—Themistocles
After this, though not many years later, we at length come to what has been already related, the ...
CHAPTER IV. From the end of the Persian to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War—The Progress from Supremacy to Empire
The way in which Athens came to be placed in the circumstances under which her power grew was thi...
CHAPTER III. Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon
The Athenians and Peloponnesians had these antecedent grounds of complaint against each other: th...
CHAPTER II. Causes of the War—The Affair of Epidamnus—The Affair of Potidaea
The city of Epidamnus stands on the right of the entrance of the Ionic Gulf. Its vicinity is inha...
CHAPTER I. The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenian...
98. “Convulsiveness”
AS I have look’d over the proof-sheets of the preceding pages, I have once or twice fear’d that m...
97. Typical Soldiers
EVEN the typical soldiers I have been personally intimate with,—it seems to me if I were to make ...
96. Hospitals Closing
October 3.—THERE are two army hospitals now remaining. I went to the largest of these (Douglas) a...
95. Calhoun’s Real Monument
IN one of the hospital tents for special cases, as I sat to-day tending a new amputation, I heard...
94. Some Sad Cases Yet
May 31.—JAMES H. WILLIAMS, aged 21, 3d Virginia cavalry.—About as mark’d a case of a strong man b...
93. Two Brothers, One South, One North
May 28–9.—I STAID to-night a long time by the bedside of a new patient, a young Baltimorean, aged...
92. A Soldier on Lincoln
May 28.—AS I sat by the beside of a sick Michigan soldier in hospital to-day, a convalescent from...