. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. ce of their allies and joinedthem at Marathon. The Athenian army numbered only 10,000hoplites, or heavy-armed soldiers: there were no archers orcavalry, and only some slaves as light-armed attendants. Of thenumber of the Persian army we have no trustworthy account, butthe lowest estimate makes it consist of 110,000 men. The plain of Marathon lies on the eastern coast of Attica, at thedistance of twenty-two miles from Athens by the shortest road. 490. BATTLE OF MARATHON. 53 It is in the form of a crescent, the ho
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. ce of their allies and joinedthem at Marathon. The Athenian army numbered only 10,000hoplites, or heavy-armed soldiers: there were no archers orcavalry, and only some slaves as light-armed attendants. Of thenumber of the Persian army we have no trustworthy account, butthe lowest estimate makes it consist of 110,000 men. The plain of Marathon lies on the eastern coast of Attica, at thedistance of twenty-two miles from Athens by the shortest road. 490. BATTLE OF MARATHON. 53 It is in the form of a crescent, the horns of which consist of twopromontories running into the sea, and forming a semicircular plain is about six miles in length, and in its widest or centralpart about two in breadth. On the day of battle the Persian armywas drawn up along the plain about a mile from the sea, and theirfleet was ranged behind them on the beach. The Atheniansoccupied the rising ground above the plain, and extended from oneside of the plain to the other. This arrangement was necessary in. Plan of the Battle of Marathon. order to protect their flanks by the mountains on each side, and toprevent the cavalry from passing round to attack them in so large a breadth of ground could not be occupied with sosmall a number of men without weakening some portion of theline. Miltiades, therefore, drew up the troops in the centrein shallow files, and resolved to rely for success upon the strongerand deeper masses of his wings. The right wing, which was thepost of honour in a Grecian army, was commanded by the Pole-march Callimachus; the hoplites were arranged in the order 51 HISTORY OF GEEEfCE. Chap. VII. of their tribes, so that the members of the same tribe foughtby each others side; and at the extreme left stood the Plateeans. Miltiades, anxious to come to close quarters as speedily aspossible, ordered his soldiers to advance at a running step over themile of ground which separated them from th
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