Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may ...

In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

In the first days of the war, Captain Władysław Raginis commanded a defense operation on the outskirts of the small Polish town Wizna. He and his unit of 720 Polish soldiers faced the impossible task ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek ... led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 ...

Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated ... All is ruin for fire and headlong god of war shall bring you low.' When the message reached Athens the popular assembly fell into ...