In 480 BC, King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, along with a few thousand other Greek allies, held the narrow pass at Thermopylae against Xerxes' huge army. They held it for three days until they were betrayed and surrounded.
They lost the battle, but their stand helped rally Greece. Within a year, the Persians were beaten at Salamis and Plataea, and the Greek world that gave us democracy, philosophy, and theater lived on.
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