mar 14, 480 BC - Battle of Thermopylae
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Persia invades by land this time. Athens wants to go and meet Persia to fight. Sparta doesn't want to help but later decides to go. They hide an army in a mountain pass and wait for Persia to pass through. Persia gets surrounded and the Greeks were winning until a Greek traitor told Persia of a secret goat pass. A small unit of the best Greek soldiers stay to fight while the rest retreat. Greece lost this battle
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