How 10,000 Spartans BRUTALLY Avenged Thermopylae and Broke Persia

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 Persians surged—archers thundering, wicker-shield sparabara pushing hard—only to find the Spartan line set on firm ground before the Temple of Demeter. Shields locked, spears leveled, the hoplites ground forward through arrow rain until the fight closed to spear-length, where bronze beat reed.

Then the hinge broke. Mardonius fell in the crush, the Persian center buckled, and the whole line began to give. Spartans and their allies drove the enemy back to the fortified camp, stormed the palisade, and turned retreat into collapse. By sunset the invasion that started at Thermopylae was over on Greek terms: 10,000 Spartans inside a larger Greek host crushed a Persian army and avenged the Hot Gates—with one disciplined push that ended an empire’s best chance at Europe.

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