Battle of Marathon
9,000 Athenians and of their 1,000 Plataian allies.
The batte of Marathon was between the Athenian people or Athens and the greatest empire of that time Persia.
The Battle of Marathon was won by Athens and its ally Plataia in 490 BCE.
It was not the Greeks, it was Athens and its ally Plataia. The Athenians waited on the edge of the Plain of Marathon for reinforcement from Sparta. Then saw the superior Persian cavalry being embarked on ships and ran down and defeated the unsupported inferior Persian infantry.
Marathon , Greece
The Battle of Marathon .
The Battle of Marathon was the first attempt , and first defeat , by Persian forces to subjugate Greece . The Persians were defeated by the Athenians at Marathon , Greece .
At the battle of Marathon 490 BCE the Athenians defeated the Persians.
Battle of Marathon
Spartans did not fight at the Battle of Marathon. The fight was solely between the Persians, and the Athenians and Plataeans.
King Darius I .
Athenians
Persians and Athens fought each other at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC - the Athenians prevailed .
The Greek historian Herodotus mentions 192 Athenians and 11 Plataeans .
The Athenians and their Platian allies defeated the Persians punitive expedition sent against them in a land battle on the Plain of Marathon.
First of all the Athenians did not win the battle of salamis, the Greeks did and they won because they had smaller and faster Greek ships