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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...