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Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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The Marathon Campaign 111) the Greeks of the peninsula for their interference, while Darius AttackGreece. Sparta and Athens, with a boldness born rather of igno- ■^^^^^^ ranee and assurance than of real knowledge, awaited theattack. The first expedition commanded by Mardoni-us, the kings son-in-law, consisted of a land army and afleet. It started southward from the Persian possessionson the north ^Egean through Macedonia in 492 B.C. Butthe fleet was shipwrecked off Mt. Athos and the expe-dition returned in disgrace. A second attack was madein 490 B.C. by a force which sailed straight across the seabound for Athens. It consisted of about 20,000 men,chiefly foot-soldiers. After stopping at the island ofEuboea and sacking Eretria, the army was landed on theAttic coast in the hill-girt plain of Marathon. The Marathon.Athenian citizen force of 10,000 heavy armed men (hop-lites), aided by 1,000 troops of the neighboring city ofPlataea, occupied the heights through which the roaddescended

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