The Athenians and their Platian allies defeated the Persians punitive expedition sent against them in a land battle on the Plain of Marathon.
The Athenians and their Platian allies defeated the Persians punitive expedition sent against them in a land battle on the Plain of Marathon.
The Persians .
No, it was a punitive expedition launched by Darius I against not the Greeks generally but Eretria and Athens. Eretria was captured and enslaved but Athens defeated the attack on it at Marathon and in front of the city in 490 BCE. Cyrus the Great was killed in a battle with the Massagetae the previous century and was subsequently succeeded by his son Cambyses II.
A Persian expeditionary force commanded by the Mede general Datis.
At Marathon and Salamis, the Greek cities defeated the Persian forces. At Thermopylai the Persian forces defeated the Greek cities.
The Battle of Marathon .
Not a city - the Plain of Marathon.
No, it was a punitive expedition launched by Darius I against not the Greeks generally but Eretria and Athens. Eretria was captured and enslaved but Athens defeated the attack on it at Marathon and in front of the city in 490 BCE. Cyrus the Great was killed in a battle with the Massagetae the previous century and was subsequently succeeded by his son Cambyses II.
It was not the Greeks but the Greek city-state of Eretria.The Persians then switched to Athens which defeated them at Marathon.
A punitive expedition he sent to Eretria and Athens was defeated by Athens at Marathon 490 BCE.
A Persian expeditionary force commanded by the Mede general Datis.
At Marathon and Salamis, the Greek cities defeated the Persian forces. At Thermopylai the Persian forces defeated the Greek cities.
The Battle of Marathon .
Not a city - the Plain of Marathon.
Battle of Marathon 17th September 490 bc
The battle of Marathon was a result of the Persians under King Darius the First to punish the Greeks for supporting the Ionian Revolt where Sardis had been burned after capture . The battle was essentially where the Greeks defeated a Persian punitive expedition that failed .
Persian naval forces were defeated by a Greek naval coalition under the command of the Spartan Admiral Eurybiades.
The Persians lost the battle. The Athenian army defeated the Persian expeditionary force.
Athens and its ally Plataia defeated the Persian expeditionary force sent out by King Darius at Marathon in 490 BCE.