At the Pass of Thermopylai a Greek force led by a Spartan king delayed the Persian army for three days.
Thermopylae in Greece .
King Leonidus was the ruler of the Spartans. He fought in the battle between the 300 Spartans and the Persians
The Spartans and the Persians
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Spartans did not fight at the Battle of Marathon. The fight was solely between the Persians, and the Athenians and Plataeans.
The Spartans fought the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae .
The Spartans were the Greeks that lost to the Persians at the battle of Thermopylae
180,000 Persians won. This took place in the battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas and his army of 6,000 to 7,000 Spartans but were delayed by the Persians when a Greek traitor showed the Persians how to attack from both sides. Leonidas commanded all of his soldiers to escape except for 300 Spartans.
The Spartans were part of a Greek force at Thermopylai. Their object was not to defend athens but to be part of a strategy to defeat the Persians in a naval battle.
Thermopylae is the pass where the Spartans fought the Persians. The Athenians simultaneously fought the Persians in the battle of Salamis (a naval battle)
The siege of Troy probably happened around 1100 BC. The battle of Thermopylae was in 480 BC - about six hundred years later.
The battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.