In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. The Persian invasion was a delayed ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...

Gathering a small but determined band of followers, he marched out to give battle ... had to pass through the rugged Zagros ...