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division of Spartan soldiers in such a way
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that they got stuck in a dead end, in a cal du sac,
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and were absolutely victimized by Iphicrates light-armed forces
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and about 600 men making up this division
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of the Spartan army called a mora, were wiped out
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and the Greek world was astonished by this,
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because no such thing had ever happened before,
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and it led to the increased use of well trained,
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light-armed infantry who play a larger role.
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They never replace the phalanx as the major form of land warfare
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but things become more complicated in the fourth century
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as they have already begun to be in the Peloponnesian War,