The Persian War.
By the Persian king Xerxes.
A fleet and an army.
The Greek defeat of the Persoan fleet at Salamis.
The Persian war fleet at the battle of Salamis.
Their army by marching and their fleet by sailing.
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.
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.
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.
Admiral George Dewey.
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.
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.
The Spartan Admiral Eurybiades led the Greek naval contingent to victory over the Persians at the sea battle of Salamis .