They allowed themselves to be fooled into splitting their fleet, with the Egyptian third of it being sidelined from the battle.
They allowed themselves to be dragged into entering the bay of Salamis, again splitting their fleet by going around both sides of Psyttalia Island and by moving in in two thin lines, exposed to mass flank attack in the narrow waters of the strait.
The result was a Greek victory over Persian naval forces .
Salamis was a battle in the Greco-Persian War, in which a combined fleet of a score of Greek city-states led by Sparta defeated a Persian Empire fleet in 480 BCE.
Persia.
The Battle of Salamis on 29 September 480 BCE.
The Greek and Persian fleets.
He was a servant of Themistocles, who aided in the subterfuge at the Battle of Salamis.
The Greek fleet lost the naval battle of Artemesion to the Persians. As the defence of the Thermopylai pass had been to force the naval battle, the force holding the pass was withdrawn as having no further purpost. A second successful sea battle was fought at Salamis.
The Greek fleet at Salamis was commanded by the Spartan admiral Eurybiades.
Persia .
Xerxes I of Persia .
Having lost the sea battle of Salamis, they then lost the land battle of Plataea, leaving them with no power.
The actual number of people who died in the Battle of Salamis is not recorded. However, more than 300 ships were lost, many of them with all hands.
Battle of Salamis happened in -480.
army lacked the capacity to function as a unit and fought as individuals.
This is not known, but with 40 ships lost, perhaps 8,000.
He had the captains of the Phoenician ships in his fleet, who lost their ships early in the battle, beheaded as an example to the others.
They lost at Salamis.
It was a sea battle. The Greek fleet assembled at the island of Salamis in preparation to fighting the Persian fleet.
480
The Battle of Salamis took place in the strait between Piraeus and Salamis Island, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.