Battles of Syracuse may refer to:
- first and second Battles of Syracuse in 415 and 414 BC, where Athens fought the Syracusans and Spartans
- Battle of Syracuse in 387 BC, during one of the Carthaginian campaigns in Sicily.
- Siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, between the city of Syracuse that was trying to reassert its control over eastern Sicily, and a Roman army under Marcellus sent to put down the city's uprising.
- Battle of Syracuse (1710), a naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession between French and British fleets.
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“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 9:11.
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