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The Battle of MarathonA miniature battle
Persia Attacks
• The Persian King Darius I commands to invade Athens, a Greek city
• He sends 25000 men and 600 ships to the bay of Marathon, just outside of Athens
• Athens would have fallen if not for Miltiades, a general from Thrace
• He knew Persian tactics and how to defeat them
Miltiades
Preparations
• The Athenians sent a runner to Sparta for help
• But 8000 Athenians defended the bay
The waiting
• For 10 days both sides waited
• The Athenian Generals were squabbling
• Also the Athenians did not have a plan yet
• The runner came back to say that Sparta could not help
• The Spartans were observing a religious festival
All on their own
• Miltiades took command and put his plan into order
• The Athenians charged down the hill
• They hit the Persians
• The sheer numbers of the Persians pushed the Greeks back
• The Greeks weakened their center and strengthened their sides
• The valley let the sides push into the Persians thus routing them
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• The Persians ran back to their ships, with 6400 casualties while the Greeks had 192
• The same runner who ran to Sparta ran back to Athens
• He announced the victory and dropped dead
• The distance between Marathon and Athens is 26 miles this is about the distance of the Marathons today
• This was the first invasion of Greece
• In the next invasion, the Persians would have many more men and Greece would be in far more danger
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• JuniorGeneral .com
• Other information from Report