Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Salamis (Wars of Alexander's Successors).

Fought B.C. 307, between the Macedonian fleet, under Demetrius Poliorcetes, and the Egyptians, under Ptolemy Soter. The Egyptians were routed, with the loss of 100 ships captured and the rest sunk, and 30,000 prisoners.