The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leuctra" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Leuctra">Battle of Leuctra</a> shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_6#cite_note-1" id="mwEg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwEw">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1" id="CITEREFCaspari1911">Caspari, Maximilian (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwBrI" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Leuctra"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Leuctra" id="mwBrM" rel="mw:ExtLink">"Leuctra"<span id="mwBrQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. In <a href="./Hugh_Chisholm" id="mwBrU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a> (ed.). <i id="mwBrY"><a href="./Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" id="mwBrc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol.<span id="mwBrg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>16 (11th<span id="mwBrk" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwBro" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>504.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBrs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Leuctra&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&amp;rft.pages=504&amp;rft.edition=11th&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1911&amp;rft.aulast=Caspari&amp;rft.aufirst=Maximilian&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+6"></span></span>