Ancient Greece - Athens launched an ambitious naval expedition to dominate Sicily

Time: 415 BC

Place: Sicily

Details: In 415 BC Athens launched an ambitious naval expedition to dominate Sicily; the expedition ended in disaster at the harbor of Syracuse, with almost the entire army killed and the ships destroyed.

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