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* 300 Spartans (and 700 Thespians) holding the pass in Thermopylæ against hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Persian army for far longer than expected, inflicting major casualties despite being outflanked.
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* 300 Spartans (and and 700 Thespians) Thespians holding the pass in Thermopylæ against hundreds of thousands[[note]]In real life, the Persian army likely had only a few tens of thousands of soldiers, but this Awesome Moment is about ''The Histories'' which reports upwards of a hundred thousand.[[/note]] of soldiers in the Persian army for far longer than expected, inflicting major casualties despite before being outflanked.outflanked and overwhelmed.
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** Crosses over with tearjerker, but a few years later, a Greek traveler, Simonedes of Ceos, wrote down a centopath (a sort of plaque) on the battlefield. The inscription on it undoubtedly assures yet again, how badass the Spartans were:
->''"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie."''
->''"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie."''
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* The naval battle of the Hollows of Euboea, in which an Athenian-led navy forms a hedgehog and survives against a vastly-larger Persian fleet that had encircled them.
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* The naval battle Battle of the Hollows of Artemisio in Euboea, in which an Athenian-led navy forms a hedgehog and survives against a vastly-larger Persian fleet that had encircled them.
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* 300 Spartans (and some 700 Thespians) holding the pass in Thermopylæ against hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Persian army for far longer than expected, inflicting major casualties despite being outflanked.
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* The Battle of Salamis, in which disciplined and well-trained Hellene sailors throw a much larger Persian fleet into chaos and even open up the possibility of cutting off the Persian land army's retreat route.
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* The Battle of Salamis, in which disciplined and well-trained Hellene sailors throw a much larger Persian fleet into chaos and even open up the possibility of cutting off the Persian land army's retreat route.route.
* The Battle of Plataea, a great land battle in which the numerically-superior Persians are slaughtered en masse due to their lack of training or armor, even though they are of equal bravery to the Spartans.
* The Battle of Plataea, a great land battle in which the numerically-superior Persians are slaughtered en masse due to their lack of training or armor, even though they are of equal bravery to the Spartans.
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* The naval battle of the Hollows of Euboea, in which an Athenian-led navy forms a hedgehog and survives against a vastly-larger Persian fleet that had encircled them.them.
* The Battle of Salamis, in which disciplined and well-trained Hellene sailors throw a much larger Persian fleet into chaos and even open up the possibility of cutting off the Persian land army's retreat route.
* The Battle of Salamis, in which disciplined and well-trained Hellene sailors throw a much larger Persian fleet into chaos and even open up the possibility of cutting off the Persian land army's retreat route.
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The movie 300 is not a valid source for points regarding Herodotus\' The Histories.
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* 300 Spartans (and some Thespians) holding the pass in Thermopylæ against hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Persian army, army for far longer than expected, inflicting major casualties before finally despite being outflanked outflanked.
* The naval battle of the Hollows of Euboea, in which an Athenian-led navy forms a hedgehog andoverwhelmed.survives against a vastly-larger Persian fleet that had encircled them.
* The naval battle of the Hollows of Euboea, in which an Athenian-led navy forms a hedgehog and
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