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What big mistake did the Persians make at the battle of Marathon?
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∙ 10y ago
They split their force. Their plan was to pin down at Marathon the Athenian infantry with their more numerical infantry, while their cavalry was shipped around to capture Athens in the absence of its army. The Athenian army would then be trapped in the open between the captured city walls and the infantry at Marathon.
Their error was in imagining their infantry without its cavalry support could stand up to the Athenian infantry. The Athenian armoured infantry, when they realised their opportunity, rand down from the hills around Marathon and over-ran the weaker Persian infantry. The Persians aid the price for this mistake.
The Athenian infantry then realised that the Persian cavalry was being shipped down the coast to Athens, so they ran the 26 miles over the hills back to Athens and arrived just in time to turn back the Persian cavalry when it was being disembarked. The Persians gave up and went home.
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