During the Greek rout from the Battle of Chaeronea, Demosthenes accidentally surrenders to a bush!

>The remainder managed to get away over the Kérata pass. Among the fugitives was [Demosthenes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Demosthenes_orator_Louvre.jpg). ‘As he was running away,’ Plutarch tells us, ‘a bramble-bush caught his cloak, whereupon he turned round and said “Take me alive!” ‘ _______________________ **Source:** Green, Peter. “From a View to a Death.” Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography. Univ. of California Press, 2005. 76. Print. _______________________ **Further Reading:** [Δημοσθένης (Demosthenes)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes) [Battle of Chaeronea (388 BCE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaeronea_(338_BC\))