APRIL 8.

431 B. C. A body of 300 Thebans surprised the town of Platæa, in Greece,

in the dead of night, and were all destroyed or captured by the

inhabitants.

46. Battle of Thassus, in Africa; Scipio and Juba defeated by Julius

Cæsar.

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