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In 492BC Darius the Great, the Persian king, sends Mardonius as a general of his fleet and army to punish the Greek city-state of Athens for helping the Ionians. Mardonius crosses the Hellespont and gets in Thrace and Macedonia. He soon adds them to the Persian Empire.
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Winners: 10,000 Athenians and 1000 Plataeans under Miltiades
Losers: about 25,000 Persians under Datis and Artaphernes (generals)and Darius I the Great (king) -
Winners: about 200,000-250,000 Persians under Xerxes (king of Persia)
Losers: about 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians under Leonidas (king of Sparta) -
Winners: the Greek navy under Themistocles (Athenian politician, general)
Losers: The Persian navy under Xerxes -
The Greeks meet the Persian army at Plataea and win it. The leader of the Greek army is the Spartan general Pausanias. At the same time Greek soldiers attack and burn a Persian fleet at Mycale, off the coast of Asia Minor.
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