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=== Battles of the Maccabean Revolt ===
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[[File:Knesset Menorah P5200009 Mac.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Maccabees]] on the [[Knesset Menorah]]]]
Selected battles between the Maccabees and the Seleucid Syrian-Greeks:
* [[Battle with Apollonius]] and [[Battle of Beth Horon (166 BCE)|Battle with Seron]]: [[Judas Maccabeus]] defeats two smaller Seleucid detachments.
* [[Battle of Emmaus]]: Judas Maccabeus performs a daring night march to make a surprise attack on the Seleucid camp while the Seleucid forces are split.
* [[Battle of Beth Zur]]: Judas Maccabeus defeats the army of [[Lysias (Syrian chancellor)|Lysias]], and captures Jerusalem soon after. Lysias relents and repeals Antiochus IV's anti-Jewish decrees.
* [[Battle of Beth Zechariah]]: The Seleucids defeat the Maccabees. [[Eleazar Avaran]], another of Mattathias's sons, is killed in battle by a war elephant. 
* [[Battle of Adasa]]: Judas defeats the forces of Nicanor after killing him early in the battle.
* [[Battle of Elasa]]: Judas dies in battle against the army of [[Bacchides (general)|Bacchides]]. He is succeeded by his brother [[Jonathan Apphus]], and eventually their other brother [[Simon Thassi]], as leader of the rebellion. The Seleucids re-establish control of the cities for 8 years, but eventually make deals with the Maccabees and appoint their leaders as official Seleucid governors and generals in a vassal-like status before eventual independence.