Battle Of Thermopylae
Greek and its city states led by King Leonidas of Sparta weren’t quite fond of Xerxes and his large persian army. It was either August 20th or September 8-10 480 B.C in Thermopylae, Greece. The Greeks have just heard word of the Persians beginning to invade Greece, the Greeks then assembled an approximate 7,000 man army to try and block off the over 100,000 man Persian army from entering Southern Greece at the pass of Thermopylae. A battle between the two broke out, and the Greeks were able to battle it out and hold off the Persians for 3 days. After a local greek traitor gave the Persians directions to an alternate path to ambush the Greek army from behind. From that point on the Persians were able to gain the upper hand and defeat the greek city
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They knew that they must make an attempt to try and stop the Persian army from proceeding to invade the rest of Greece. So they Greek cities decided to come together and put their rivalries off to the side to stop the enemy. Their army consisted of 300 spartans, and 6000-7000 soldiers from other greek cities, all led by the mighty King Leonidas. Leonidas and his men settled in Central Greece on a narrow pass known as the Thermopylae Pass. Their plan was to stay in the tight area so that they would be able to avoid confronting the entire army, and squeze toward them causing the persians to run into the Greek army. This plan worked well for Leonidas and his men for 3 days until a local Greek traitor gave Xerxes directions to a path west of Thermopylae that would allow the Persian army to sneak up behind the greek army to ambush them. Persians were now attacking from all sides, many greek members retreated while Leonidas, and his 300 spartans stayed to fight. After 3 days of battling the greeks were defeated by the large persian army. A little over 5.000 members of the greek army died and about 20,000 persians were