Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
Army/Troops
A coalition of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army and its Greek allies outside the Greek city of Plataea in 479 BCE. The defending Greek army of armoured foot soldiers kept to the rough ground to negate the Persian cavalry, then engaged and defeated the unarmoured Persian infantry. At the same time a Greek fleet swooped on the remnants of the Persian fleet at Mycale and captured it. This combined action ended the invasion of mainland Greece by the Persian king Xerxes.
The Persian army directed by their king Xerxes I.
Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
Army/Troops
King Cyrus the Great.
Under Xerxes I the Persian army captured Athens following the battle of Thermopylae. The Persian king to conquer Athens , was the famous Persian king called Cyrus.
Xerxes.
A coalition of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army and its Greek allies outside the Greek city of Plataea in 479 BCE. The defending Greek army of armoured foot soldiers kept to the rough ground to negate the Persian cavalry, then engaged and defeated the unarmoured Persian infantry. At the same time a Greek fleet swooped on the remnants of the Persian fleet at Mycale and captured it. This combined action ended the invasion of mainland Greece by the Persian king Xerxes.
From 550 BCE when it began expansion in conjunction with Media until 331 BCE when its last imperial army was defeated by Alexander the Great, and its king assassinated by his own nobles.
Darius
The Persian army directed by their king Xerxes I.
They were called the cavaliers because the cavalry was the most important part of an army.