![]() ![]() ![]() Amphipolis surrendered, despite protests from Eucles. In order to capture the city before Thucydides arrived, Brasidas offered to let everyone who wished to stay keep their property, and offered safe passage to those who wanted to leave. The city was defended by the Athenian general Eucles, who sent for help from Thucydides (at that point a general, later a famous historian), who was at Thasos with seven Athenian ships. In the winter of 424–423, around the same time as the Battle of Delium, Brasidas besieged Amphipolis, an Athenian colony in Thrace on the Strymon river. Early December 424, Brasidas set out for his main objective: Amphipolis. In late August, the Brasidians arrived at and took Acanthus on the Chalcidice. After foiling an Athenian attempt to capture Megara, Brasidas marched his army through Thessaly and linked up with Perdiccas II of Macedon, one of Sparta's northern allies. Brasidas gathered an army of 700 helots armed as hoplites and 1,000 mercenary hoplites from the Peloponnese near Corinth. In 424 BC, in response to the Athenian harassments of the Peloponnese from Pylos and Cythera after the Battle of Pylos, Spartan general Brasidas gained permission to take an army north to attack Athenian holdings in Thrace. It was the culmination of events that began in 424 BC with the capture of Amphipolis by the Spartans. The Battle of Amphipolis was fought in 422 BC during the Second Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. ![]()
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