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During the Persian War Athens was destroyed by a Persian force led by the emperor?

By the Persian king Xerxes.


What did the Persia attack Greece withduring the Persian war?

A fleet and an army.


What was the turing point in the Persian War?

The Greek defeat of the Persoan fleet at Salamis.


What and where did the ancient Greeks destory in 480bc?

The Persian war fleet at the battle of Salamis.


How do the Persians get to Greece in Persian war one?

Their army by marching and their fleet by sailing.


When did Athens surrender to Sparta at the end of the Persian War?

After the Persian War, conflict between the two broke out and culminated in the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian War. In the end, the Spartan alliance developed a war fleet using Persian funds to defeat the hitherto superior Athenian fleet, besieged Athens and starved it into surrender in 404 BCE.


During the Peloponnesian War the Athenian navy was destroyed at the battle of?

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.


What was the Greeks strategy durinq the Persian war?

To destroy the Persian fleet so that it could not support or supply the Persian army, ot attack the Greek coastal cities, which most were.


Who was the Commodore that destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Spanish American War?

Admiral George Dewey.


Why was thermopylae chosen by king loenitis to fight the Persian?

The object was to destroy the Persian fleet. By blocking the pass it forced the Persian fleet to try to turn it by sea. The Greek fleet was waiting and engaged the Persian fleet. The Greek plan failed as they lost the sea battle.


Where was the key battle site of the Persian War?

In the strait of Salamis 480 BCE, where the Persian war fleet was defeated by the Greek. Loss of naval superiority exposed Xerxes' sea supply line and he had to take half his army home, the other half having to withdraw to Thessaly for the winter as the country south could not support his cavalry.Also, with the threat of amphibious invasion of their cities gone, the cities of the Peloponnese were able to release their armies the following summer 479 BCE to concentrate at Plataia where they defeated the Persian army and its Greek allies. At the same time, the Greek fleet destroyed the remnant of the Persian fleet at Mykale and so the Persian threat collapsed.


Who destroyed the Persian fleet at salamis?

The Spartan Admiral Eurybiades led the Greek naval contingent to victory over the Persians at the sea battle of Salamis .