Xerxes was the Persian, not the Athenian leader. No leader at the battle sank most of anyone's fleet.
Xerxes I of Persia .
Xerxes I of Persia was defeated in the naval battle of Salamis by Athenian admiral Themistocles .
Persian - Xerxes I. Greek - Eurybiades of Sparta.
The commander was King Xerxes I.
The Greek fleet at Salamis was commanded by the Spartan admiral Eurybiades.
Xerxes
the king was Xerxes
King Xerxes.
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.
Themistocles set a trap for the Persian navy at Salamis. He didn't set any trap for the Persian army other than when the Persian fleet was defeated and had to withdraw to Asia, the Persian cargo fleet could no longer supply the army, and half of it had to be sent home.
He was very interested as commander of the Persian expeditionary force.
Sparta and Athens, along with other Greek city-states, stopped King Xerxes' march into Greece at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE. This naval battle occurred in the straits between the island of Salamis and the Athenian coast, where the Greek fleet decisively defeated the Persian navy. Prior to this, the Persian advance was also halted at the Battle of Thermopylae, where a small Greek force, including Spartans led by King Leonidas, made a valiant stand against Xerxes' much larger army.