Bataille d'Aegospotami, 405 av.

Battle of Aegospotami, 405 BC The battle of Aegospotami (405 BC) was a crushing Athenian defeat that effectively ended the Great Peloponnesian War, leaving the city vulnerable to a siege and naval blockade.The previous year had ended with a major Athenian victory at the battle of the Arginusae Islands, but in the aftermath of this battle six of the eight Athenian generals had been executed for failing to rescue the survivors from twenty-five ships sunk during the battle, and the remaining two had gone into exile.