Talk:Battle of the Sagra

Removal of unsourced claims
In my last edit I removed the following unsourced claims: After having studied the sources, I only know about a shield/trophy found at Olympia. And AFAIK the inscriptions of that shield mention nothing about the details of the battle. Because I couldn't find any sources for this I removed the claims for now. If I missed some source, please enlighten me. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 16:59, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Crotone opened hostilities and had the superior miitary force. Their Locrian opponents thus decided not to meet the enemy in open battle, but instead to wait at the ford of the River Sagra.
 * According to legend the river's waters were stained red with the blood of the dead. Historically, the Locrian cavalry first blocked the Crotonese army and then routed it. Much of the data we now have on the battle is from a shield found at Delphi, inscribed by (among others) "the citizens of Hipponion and Medma and Locri dedicated [this] as booty from the Crotoniates".