The sea battle of Salamis had defeated the Persian fleet, but the Persian invasion army remained. By winning the land battle at Plataea and simultaneously the sea-land battle at Mycale, the Persian invasion was repelled.
The battle of Plataea was won by an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta against an alliance of Persia and Greek city-states. The defeated Persians withdrew from their invasion of mainland Greece, but fighting continued fro another 30 years until the Persians gave up trying to enforce peace on the Greeks, and left them to go back to fighting each other.
The Battle of Plataea 479 BC marked the final battle of the Second Persian invasion of Greece . This battle would mark the last time a Persian army invaded mainland Greece .
Well, it was destroyed at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE), but earlier (479 BCE) it was the site of one of the two land victories which ended the Persian invasion of Greece.
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The Greek alliance armoured infantry kept to the hilly rough ground to avoid the Persian cavalry, and defeated the inferior Persian infantry and its Greek allies.
479 BCE.
A Persian expeditionary force versus the armies of Athens and Plataea.
At the critical battles of Salamis, Plataea and Mycale the numbers engaged on both sides were about even.
Battle of Plataea happened in -479.
They were defeated by a coalition of Greek city-states led by Sparta.
Marathon 490 BCE. Plataea 479 BCE.
The Battle of Plataea 479 BC marked the final battle of the Second Persian invasion of Greece . This battle would mark the last time a Persian army invaded mainland Greece .
Nebulosa plataea was created in 1893.
Near the city of Plataea in central Greece.
The southern Greek alliance led by Sparta defeated the Persian expeditionary army and its Greek allies.
It continued on for another 150 years until taken over by Macedonia led by Alexander the Great.
The Battle of Plataea was a decisive victory for the Greeks. There is a link to an article below for more information.
The Battle of Plataea was a decisive victory for the Greeks. There is a link to an article below for more information.
The Persians were defeated and went home. However the war went on for another thirty years.
A day.