[SunkenCiv]

The sites of battles change, just like the local landscape changes, and surprisingly rapidly in the face of strong rains, big spring thaws, and whatnot. If I were to travel to sites of battles, Leuctra would be #1 on my list -- that's where the Thebans annihilated the monstrous Spartan pederasty/slaveholding regime, ended the Peloponnesian War, freed the enslaved victims of the hideous Spartans, and became the dominant power in Greece -- not for all that long, Macedonia conquered Greece, then the Romans.

Victory Monument erected by Epaminondas of Thebes at Leuctra, partially restored (Battle of Leuctra, 371 BC)

[KC_Lion]

Leuctra would be #1 on my list -- that's where the Thebans annihilated the monstrous Spartan pederasty/slaveholding regime, ended the Peloponnesian War, freed the enslaved victims of the hideous Spartans, and became the dominant power in Greece -- not for all that long, Macedonia conquered Greece, then the Romans.

I hate to be Johnny Rain Cloud SunkenCiv, But the Sacred Band of Thebes, that Defeated the Spartans and Was Annihilated by Phillip of Macedon... was well.....

..I will let Plato Explain: "And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes

[jpsb]

Macedonia conquered Greece, then the Romans.

Macedonia conquered the Romans? I think not.