Battle of Chios
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| Battle of Chios | |||||||
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| Part of the Cretan War | |||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||
| Macedon | Rhodes, Pergamum, Byzantium, Cyzicus |
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| Commanders | |||||||
| Philip V of Macedon | Attalus I, Theophiliscus of Rhodes |
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| Strength | |||||||
| Around 200 ships | Around 100 ships | ||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| 92 ships sunken, 7 captured, 9,000 dead, 2,000 captured |
Rhodes: 3 ships sunken, 60 dead, Pergamum: 3 ships sunken, 2 captured, 70 dead Allies: 600 captured |
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The Battle of Chios (201 BC) was fought between the fleet of Philip V of Macedon against the combined fleet of Rhodes, Pergamum, Byzantium and Cyzicus.
The Cretan War had started in 205 BC when the Macedonians and their pirate and Cretan allies had started attacking Rhodian ships as Rhodes had the richest merchant fleet in the Aegean. The navies of Rhodes' allies Pergamum, Byzantium and Cyzicus joined the Rhodian fleet and theu defeated the Macedonian fleet off Chios.
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[edit] Prelude
With the First Macedonian War over, Philip started to rebuild his fleet to a size were it could challenge the fleets of the Rhodians, Pergamese and Ptolemies.[1] Philip wanted to crush the dominate naval power in the Aegean, his ally Rhodes.[2] He formed alliances with Aetolian and Spartan pirates as well as a few powerful Cretan city states.
[edit] Battle
[edit] Aftermath
[edit] Notes
- ^ Green, Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, 305
- ^ Detorakis, A History of Crete, 305
[edit] References
[edit] Primary Sources
- Polybius, translated by Frank W. Walbank, (1979). The Rise of the Roman Empire. New York: Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-044362-2.
[edit] Secondary Sources
- Peter Green, (1990). Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-500-01485-X.
- Theocharis Detorakis, (1994). A History of Crete. Heraklion: Heraklion. ISBN 960-220-712-4.
[edit] External links
- Chios, Greece Information about Chios island.
