Siege of Eion

Siege of Eion

The Siege of Eion was a siege that resulted in the capturing of Eion by the Delian League. The siege was the first recorded action of the Delian League. Eion was occupied by the Persians in 476 BC in the aftermath of the Greco-Persian Wars. It was then captured by the Delian League in 475 BC under the leadership of the Athenian general Cimon, the son of Miltiades the Younger. The inhabitants were enslaved. The capture of Eion was the beginning of a military campaign undertaken by the newly formed Delian League, whose objective was to clear the Aegean Sea of Persian fleets and pirates in order to facilitate Athenian access to the Hellespont.

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*cite book |author=Sealey, Raphael |title=A history of the Greek city states, ca. 700-338 B. C |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1976 |pages= |isbn=0-520-03177-6 |oclc= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=kAvbhZrv4gUC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq=%22siege+of+eion%22&source=web&ots=tLEExQ88uL&sig=F3OLtOBXEOx6uyxysPsmCAPz4w4
*cite book |author=Kagan, Donald |title=The outbreak of the Peloponnesian War |publisher=Cornell University Press, 1989 |location=Ithaca, N.Y |year=1989 |pages= |isbn=0-8014-9556-3 |oclc= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fCEmz4mcZFsC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=%22siege+of+eion%22&source=web&ots=0U2E4hW9jS&sig=LnTH7j6P9hRPomfxoO5DECRNLSw


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