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The battle waged on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica in 490 B.C. marked the first blows of the Greco-Persian War. With the Persians closing in on the Greek capitol, Athenian general Miltiades assumed command of the hastily assembled army. The victory of “the Marathon men”
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Battle in northern Greece (480 BC) in the Persian Wars. Ten years after the defeat at Marathon, the Persian invasion of Greece was resumed by King Xerxes in 480 BCE. A Spartan-led Greek army led by Leonidas tried to block the Persian advance at the pass of Thermopylae but was defeated
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After the Battle of Thermopylae,the Persians marched into Athens and burnt the
city.Later,a sea battle broke out at the Bay of Salamis.There,the
Athenian navy destroyed the Persian fleet.
