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In this and 12 subsequent years, he was elected boeotarch, or warleader,[1] and around 375 BC, he routed a much larger Spartan force at the Battle of Tegyra (near Orchomenus).[2] This victory he owed mainly to the valour of the Sacred Band, an elite corps of 300 seasoned soldiers. At the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC), he contributed greatly to the success of Epaminondas's new tactics by the rapidity with which he made the Sacred Band close with the Spartans. At Leuctra, Epaminondas, a brilliant and intuitive general, used the oblique order for the first time. After the battle at Leuctra, Thebes began to replace Sparta as the leading city of Greece.[citation needed]