hand-to-hand fighting as part of the main battle line, while another strong opinion posits that he worked his changes upon the mercenary hoplites that were an important factor in late 5th and early 4th century B.C. Greek land warfare. A third possibility is that his reforms were limited to hoplites serving as marines on board ships of the Athenian navy. He also, made soldiers' boots that were easy to untie and light. These boots called afterwards, from his name, Iphicratids (). Before Iphicrates, the infantry soldiers used very large shields, short spears and small swords, while Iphicrates introduced the smaller and lighter pelte shields, which helped them be more active in movements and encounters, doubled the length of the spears and made the swords longer. In addition, he gave them linen Cuirasses instead of the bronze armor, this made the soldiers more active because they had an equipment which would equally protect the body and be light. By these changes he greatly increased the rapidity of their movements, the longer weapons, combined with the lighter armor and shield, helped his troops to take a more aggressive approach in tactical situations. He also paid special attention to discipline, drill and maneuver. Cornelius Nepos mentions that he commanded the army with so much strictness that no other troops in Greece were ever better disciplined or more obedient to the orders of their leader than Iphicrates troops. The Iphicratean reforms are considered to have been one of the leading influences on Philip II of Macedon, when he created the sarissa-armed Macedonian phalanx. His son, Alexander the Great, used this new infantry formation in his many conquests. Corinthian War When Iphicrates invaded the territory of Phlius, the men from the city came out against him in an unguarded way, but Iphicrates had set an ambush and his troops killed many of them. Iphicrates and his troops invaded many districts of Arcadia, they plundered and they even made attacks upon the walled towns, but the hoplites of the Arcadians did not come out from their walls to meet them because they were scared of the Iphicrates peltasts. With his troops Iphicrates dealt the Spartans a heavy blow in 392/390 BC by almost annihilating a mora (a battalion of about 600 men) of their famous hoplites at the Battle of Lechaeum near Corinth. Following up success, he took city after city for the Athenians during the