However, few people know that, 2,421 years later, Thermopylae was once again the site of another battle during World War II: the Allies and Germans clashed there, and this time, the Greeks, aligned ...

In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

In one of the greatest, yet now forgotten, small-unit engagements in American history, several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae.

Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may ...

In the first days of the war, Captain Władysław Raginis commanded ... The event that went down in history as the Polish Thermopylae would become a remarkable act of heroism and courage of ...

Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated ... All is ruin for fire and headlong god of war shall bring you low.' When the message reached Athens the popular assembly fell into ...

Surrender is the bright line separating war from peace. Surrender stops the ... The ultimate Spartan loss to the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE, mythologized as an act of ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek ... led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 ...

“This may seem nutty, but this is like Thermopylae, Lexington ... a stark reminder of the war’s toll. The crowd reacted with visible grief. While speakers avoided direct criticism of former President ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek ... led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 ...