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To: Spktyr

Actually the Persians eventually won that war.


4 posted on 02/02/2008 6:27:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
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To: cripplecreek; freedom44

I seem to recall the Persians getting kicked out of Greece not once but twice.

Yes, the Persians won at Thermopylae, which was the second major Persian invasion; wherein Xerxes brought over his 2.7 million men. But that was a battle, not the war.

The simultaneous naval battle at Artemisium was a stalemate. Xerxes went on to sack the deserted city of Athens; the inhabitants of which had fled to Salamis. The ensuing naval battle at Salamis was a shattering defeat for the Persians; Xerxes began retreating. What was left of the Persian army was finally defeated in detail at Plataea.

Sounds like a Persian loss to me. What war did the Persians actually win against the Greeks, again?


14 posted on 02/02/2008 6:40:16 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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