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The Battle of Marathon A miniature battle

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The Battle of MarathonA miniature battle

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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

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Miltiades

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Preparations

• The Athenians sent a runner to Sparta for help

• But 8000 Athenians defended the bay

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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

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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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