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1200-1000 b.c, battle was triggered in response to an incident of gross inhospitality on part of the Tribe of Benjamin, in which a concubine belonging to an man from the Tribe of Ephraim was killed by a rowdy mob. The man took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and divided her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
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Battle of Gibeah
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Due to this war, the Tribe of Benjamin was subsequently referred to as "the smallest of all the tribes"
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Battle of Gibeah
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The battle in which David defeats Saul with the help of the Phillistines.
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Battle of Gilboa
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490 BC, was the culmination of King Darius I of Persia's first full scale attempt to conquer the remainder of Greece and incorporate it into the Persian Empire.
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Battle of Marathon
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480 BC. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history's most famous last stands. A small force of 300 led by King Leonidas I of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I of Persia could pass.
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Battle of Thermopylae
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a decisive naval battle between the Greek city-states and Persia in September, 480 BC in the strait between Piraeus and eponymous Island, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.
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Battle of Salamis
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Occurred in southern Anatolia, in November 333 BC. The invading troops led by the young Alexander of Macedonia, outnumbered more than 2:1, defeated the army personally led by Darius III of Achaemenid Persia in the second great battle for primacy in Asia.
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Battle of Issus ('i-səs) (first syllable rhymes with is)
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Took place in 331 BC between Alexander the Great of Macedonia and Darius III of Achaemenid Persia.
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Battle of Gaugamela
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a battle fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against the Indian king Porus (Pururava or Purushotthama in Sanskrit) at Kshatriya on the Hydaspes River (the Jhelum) in the Punjab region of ancient India, near Bhera now in Pakistan.
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Battle of the Hydaspes River
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Battle from which term Pyrrhic victory was coined. Took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of Consul Publius Valerius Laevinus and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
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Battle of Asculum
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The first of three major wars fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic.
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First Punic War
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