The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages . r to oppose the Athenians to the Per-sians who formed the lefi; wing of the Persianarmy. But Mardonius upon learning thismovement, made a Httle change in his army;the Atlienians again moved from the right tothe left; the Persians made a like morvement,so that they still faced the Lacedemonians,and in this manner the whole day passedwithout any action at all. In the evening the Grecians held a councilof war, in which they determined to decamp,and take possession of a p
The battle roll: an encyclopedia containing descriptions of the most famous and memorable land battles and sieges in all ages . r to oppose the Athenians to the Per-sians who formed the lefi; wing of the Persianarmy. But Mardonius upon learning thismovement, made a Httle change in his army;the Atlienians again moved from the right tothe left; the Persians made a like morvement,so that they still faced the Lacedemonians,and in this manner the whole day passedwithout any action at all. In the evening the Grecians held a councilof war, in which they determined to decamp,and take possession of a place more commo-dious for water, because the springs of theirpresent camp were disturbed and spoiled bythe enemys horse. After nightfiiU the Gre-cian army was put in motion; but the sol-diers marched very unwillingly, and could not,without great difficulty, be kept length they halted near the city of Pla-t£ea. As soon as Mardonius heard that theGrecians had decamped, he drew his armyinto order of battle, and pursued them withthe hideous shouts and howls of his barbarianforces. They thought they were not going. ^&^->^ J ^?mwf^:\:^^>^^. PLAT^A. 481 to fight an enemy, but to strip and plunder amass of flying fugitives. Wliile in hot pur-suit, the Persians encountered the LacedaB-monians, who were alone and separated fromthe main body of the Grecian army. Theywere about 50,000 strong. The encounterwas exceedingly fierce; on both sides themen fought with the courage of hons, andthe barbarians perceived that they were con-tending with men who had resolved to con-quer or die on the field. The Athenianshastened to their assistance, but the Greekswho were on the side of the Persians, to thenumber of 60,000 men, went out to meetthem, and prevented them from joining theLacedaemonians. Aristides, with his bravemen, bore up firmly against them, and with-stood the attack. His 8,000 men of couragewere moie formidable than the 20,000 Gre-cian renegades who opposed him. The b
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