Facts about the battle of marathon?

Answer 1

The Battle of Marathon was a battle that took place between Athens and a Persian expeditionary force in 490 B.C. Seeing the Persian cavalry being loaded on ships, the Athenians ran down from the hills where they had been lurking away from the cavalry threat, and defeated the helpless inferior Persian infantry. The Persian expedition then went home.

Answer 2

The Athenian army won a battle against a much larger force, but its longer impact was what happened afterwards...

A runner named Pheidippedes was dispatched back to Athens, to relay the surprising, but welcome, news. After 26 miles, the exhausted runner reached the walls of the city, cried "Rejoice, we conquer!" - and died on the spot; thus giving us one of the great exit lines in history.

In 1896, at the first Olympic Games - in Athens - the feat was revived with less fatal consequences, to give us the modern marathon. Incidentally, the extra 365yds was added at the 1908 Olympics in London to permit the race to start under the nursery at Windsor Castle, and finish in front of the Royal Box at the new stadium in London.

Answer 3

The Athenian and Plataian armoured warriors ran down and caught the inferior Persian unarmoured infantry without their cavalry support and routed them. Meanwhile the Persian cavalry was being shipped around the coast to capture Athens while its army was busy at Marathon.

After winning at Marathon, the Athenian army realised what was happening and ran back over the mountains the 26 miles to Athens and arrived just in time to see off the Persian cavalry as it was disembarking. The Persians went home.

Answer 4

Because the Persians kept invading Greece for personal gain.

Eventually Greece had enough and attacked the Persians back.

Answer 5

The battle of marathon was a war between the Athens and the Persians. It acquired in the 490 b.c

Answer 6

Xerxes daughter was kidnapped and killed by the Sparta king, leonidas.

Answer 7

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