== == Leonidas one of the two kings of Sparta.
The commander of the Athenian component of the Greek fleet was Themistocles. The overall commander was the Spartan Eurybiades.
Eurybiades, Spartan admiral and commander of the defending Greek fleet.
The next battle was a naval one at Salamis. Eurybiades son of Eurycleides commanded both the Spartan contingent and was overall commander of the combined Greek navies.
Lysander
The Battle of Aigospotamai 404 BCE.Although set to be a sea battle between the Spartan-alliance and the Athenian fleet, Spartan commander Lysander by a ruse caught the Athenian fleet drawn up on the shore whth its crews dispersed feeding themselves, landed his force and captured them on land.
The Battle of Thermopylae.
during battle
spears and the kopis
Tirad Pass was in the Philippines in 1899 CE, over two thousand years after the Spartans had passed into history. It was known as the 'Philippines Thermopylae', which may have led to the confusion.
Leonidas .
Xerxes the first
The Spartans fought the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae .