The Greek fleet at Salamis was commanded by the Spartan admiral Eurybiades.
The Battle of Salamis on 29 September 480 BCE.
His forces had an initial naval victory at Artemesion, but was then defeated at Salamis, Plataia and Mycale. The Persian invasion failed.
The Persian Empire, under the leadership of King Xerxes I, invaded Greece and commanded their army during the battle of Salamis in 480 BCE. This naval battle was a crucial conflict in the Greco-Persian Wars, where the Greek city-states, united under the leadership of figures like Themistocles, ultimately defeated the larger Persian fleet. The victory at Salamis significantly weakened Xerxes' forces and marked a turning point in the war.
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No one surrendered. The remainder of the Persian fleet, defeated at Salamis, withdrew to Mykale in Asia Minor. Persian King Xerxes I took half his army home as a poor country such as Greece could not support it through the winter.
Xerxes I of Persia was defeated in the naval battle of Salamis by Athenian admiral Themistocles .
Xerxes was the Persian, not the Athenian leader. No leader at the battle sank most of anyone's fleet.
King Xerxes.
King Xerxes' fleet of ships from Phonecia, Egypt and Asian-Greeks was defeated at the Battle of Salamis by the Greek fleet led by Spartan Admiral Eurybiades.
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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.
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.
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.
The Battle of Salamis on 29 September 480 BCE.
His forces had an initial naval victory at Artemesion, but was then defeated at Salamis, Plataia and Mycale. The Persian invasion failed.
A foothill of Mt Aigaleos above the overlooking the strait between Athens and Salamis.
The Athenian general Themistocles commanded the major Athenian component of the Greek fleet which engaged the Persian fleet in the Artemesion strait bedside the Thermopylai pass.The object of holding the pass was to precipitate this sea battle to destroy the Persian amphibious threat to the southern Greek cities. The Greeks lost, and the pass was abandoned as having no further use.The Greeks tried again in the strait at Salamis near Athens and defeated the Persian navy.The blocking force at Thermopylai pass was commanded by the Spartan general King Leonides.