Chaeronea, Battle of

Chaeronea, Battle of
(338 BC) Battle in Boeotia, central Greece, in which Philip II of Macedonia defeated Thebes and Athens.

The victory, partly credited to Philip's young son Alexander the Great, gave Macedonia a foothold in Greece and represented a start toward Alexander's eventual empire.

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