His fathers took a prominent part in Athenian politics, and in 479 held high command in the Greek squadron which annihilated the remnants of Xerxes' fleet at Mycale; through his mother, the niece of Cleisthenes, he was connected with the former tyrants of Sicyon and the family of the Alcmaeonidae.
On the restoration of peace he was appointed to high command in Hungary.
The effect of the congress and of this propaganda was to hasten the disintegration in the Austro-Hungarian army, and the High Command (in a communiqué of July 27) admitted that wholesale defections of the Czechoslovaks and the Yugosla y s had.
Moreover the High Command viewed with alarm the growth of " Septembrist " doctrine among the troops - i.e.
When Abu Bekr resolved to invade Syria, he entrusted `Amr with a high command.
