It had 180 triremes, each with a crew of 200, making up half of the Greek fleet opposing Persia.
It was the Battle of Thermopylae in the Second Persian War. The Greeks won. Shortly after Thermopylae the Athenian Navy defeated the Persian Navy at Salamis, and in the next year the Persian Army was defeated by a combined Greek Army at Plataea.
Themistocles led Athens to build a large navy that was eventually useful in defeating the Persians. He also served as Arkhon or Ruler during the Wars.
The most important during the 50 years of war which turned the result was the defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 BCE
the Persian war
The US Navy monitored the combatants to ensure the Persian Gulf sea lanes remained open during the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988.
Battle of Aigospotamai where the Peloponnesian fleet led by the Spartan admiral Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet.Battle of Aegospotami where the Spartan Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet.
The US Navy patrolled the Persian Gulf during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.
No, it was the Athenians. Salamis was a sea battle, and at that time Sparta had no navy. Salamis appeared as a chance for the Persians to destroy the Athenian ships, but it was a trap, and the turning point of the Second Persian War.
Persian War - the Persian Empire versus varying coalitions of Greek city-states. Peloponnesian War - the Athenian Empire versus the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
By the Greek city-states combining to defeat the Persian army and navy.
For the Greeks, the Persian War was warding off Persian dominance. The Peloponnesian War was a protracted fight to terminate the Athenian Empire's attempt to dominate the other Greek city-states.
There was no Greek war Salamis. There was a sea battle in which the fleet of the southern Greek cities defeated a Persian-led fleet of warships supplied by its subject territories - Phoenicias, Asian-Greek and Egyptian.