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- In the Battle of Marathon, the Persians counted 6,400 dead soldiers and many more captured. The Athenian dead totaled only 192. And even though the Persians still badly outnumbered the Athenians, Darius turned for home, convinced that he was beaten.
- BATTLE #1MARATON
- BATTLE #2THERMOPYLAE
- In 480 B.C., 10 years after the disastrous defeat at Marathon, the Persians were back, this time with even more men. They met a combined force of Greeks at Thermopylae, a small mountain pass that controlled access to most of the rest of Greece. A group of 7,000 soldiers easily held off the Persians for two days. But a Greek traitor showed the Persians a secret passageway that allowed them to strike the Greek army from the rear. Seeing this, most of the defenders retreated. A group of 300 Spartans stayed on the battlefield, fighting to the death and covering their fellow Greeks' retreat. This heroic act allowed the rest of the Greek army, which was made up of soldiers from all over Greece, to escape capture or certain death.
- Following the success at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Persian army poured into mainland Greece and wreaked havoc, including burning Athens to the ground. The people and army of Athens, however, had escaped to the island of Salamis in the ships that far-sighted generals had insisted on building several years before.
- BATTLE #3SALAMIS
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