How 10,000 Spartans BRUTALLY Avenged Thermopylae and Broke Persia

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Leonidas fell at the Hot Gates—but Sparta kept the bill. At Plataea (479 BCE), a Greek coalition under Pausanias marched out to finish the war. Persian cavalry harassed the Greek line off the springs; supply lines frayed; a messy night withdrawal scattered units across the plain. At dawn, the Persia