In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain to ...

The Greeks put their forces under the command of Leonidas, king of the warlike Spartans of southern Greece. The Greeks totalled no more than 10,000, including servants.

The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most famous last stands in history and is known for King Leonidas and 300 soldiers of Sparta fighting a million-strong Persian army. Read on to know if this ...

THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT! This is where we die! Full speed ahead. Speak loud AND carry a big stick. Damn the torpedoes, and remember the Alamo! The Alamo? Wrong century, but, still, we’re talking ...

Thermopylae, the narrow pass above Greece’s Malian Gulf, is most famous for the legendary last stand of King Leonidas and his storied band of 300 Spartans in 480 B.C.E.

According to legend, King Leonidas I of Sparta led a group of 300 warriors who held off hundreds of thousands of Persian invaders under Great King Xerxes in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

Led by their king, Leonidas, the Spartans knew they were marching to their death from the moment they left home. A force of 300 against a legendary army of millions, the Spartans knew that ...

King Leonidas slipped into legend at the Battle of Thermopylae, martyred with 300 Spartans for the sake of Western Civilization and Spartan glory. “Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by ...

On Hitler’s 50th birthday, April 20, 1945, he exhorted his fellow goose-steppers in the Bunker, “Just think of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans.” Adolf had ten unpleasant days to live.