Persian King Xerxes 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 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans.

In the battle that followed, the Persian armada was devastated. The Greeks lost 40 ships, the Persians 200. Unable to keep his land army supplied Xerxes was forced to flee back to his empire ...

Shortly before unleashing his million-strong army on European soil, the Persian Emperor Xerxes was confronted with his chief ...

When the Persian king, Xerxes, invaded Greece in the spring of 480 BC, he did so at the head of vast army. Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated, his route by land to Athens was ...

Xerxes had amassed a huge army and navy, and set out to conquer all of Greece. The Athenian general Themistocles had proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the ...

The Real Xerxes: The True Ruler Beyond 300 Posted: 10 January 2025 | Last updated: 10 January 2025 Xerxes the Great was the fourth King of Kings who ruled the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Known in ...