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In 338 BC, one of the most famous battle of Greek Antiquity occurred in Chaeronea located on the Cephissus near Thebes.

It brought into conflict the Macedonian army and a Thebo-Athenian coalition. The progress of the battle and the victory

of Philip II and Alexander have represented a classical example of strategy supremacy since that time.

The latter was constructed from the analysis of the means of the present forces and their military features,

not forgetting the selection of the battlefield required by the sea supremacy of Athenians. The strong points

of the Macedonian army were the following ones: superiority of spears (weapon of the Macedonian phalanx);

important mobility and velocity of the phalanx; high-experienced cavalry led by Alexander. The weak points:

number inferiority; battle against an experienced and recognized army. But the adversaries had a weak point.

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