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关于第二次波希战争和温泉关战役
The 2nd War Between Persian and Greece
The second war between Persian & Greek continued after the first war in which king Darius was defeated by the Greece. Darius died after first war and his son Xerxes kept seeking revenge after he was throned. He spent a couple of years and build a tremendous army of 2 million soldiers.
To attack Greek from south, Persian army had to pass through a narrow passage way, the Thermopylae. It was a strategic point, so king Leonidas sent 7000 Athens and Spartan soldiers to defend it. The Greek heavy infantries hold the mighty Persian force for 7 days. But after the betrayal of one of their own, Persian army found a secret passage to bypass the Thermopylae and attack from behind. The whole Greek defending force was wiped out during the battle afterwards. This is the famous battle of Thermopylae.
After the defeat at Thermopylae, Greek navy retreated to Salamis bay and Xerxes burnt down the empty capital Athens and continued his pursuit.
At the Salamis bay, Themistocles’s defense was ready but was out numbered. So he pretended to be a traitor and gave the Persians fake information.
Persians took the bait and try to block the Salamis strait. Their fleets were lured into the narrow strait and were defeated by the Greek navy because their advantage in number make no use in that narrow bay. This was the turning point of the 2rd war between Persia and Greece.
If Persian defeated Greek army at Salamis bay, the ancient Greek civilization will be no more and that probably means the whole modern western civilization no longer in existence. So battle of Salamis is one of the most important war in human history.
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