“300” is a 2006 movie depicting the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans, defenders of King Leonidas, along with another 1,100 or so allies held back Persian King Xerxes and his army of ...
Xerxes marches past Troy with an empire-sized army, and Greece chooses the only ground where numbers mean less, Thermopylae on land and Artemisia at sea. This chapter follows the tactical plan, the ...