In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae ... Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians ...
Thermopylae, the narrow pass above Greece’s Malian Gulf, is most famous for the legendary last stand of King Leonidas and his storied band of 300 Spartans in 480 B.C.E.
The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and death ...
The Pallaconian Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria "Leonidas" held an Anzac ceremony at Sparta Place, Brunswick. Officials made speeches about the not so well known battle of Thermopylae ...
This was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas ... the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae, or ...