To first destroy the Persian sea power which threatened the Greek city-states and so made them keep their armies at home defending their cities. With the sea threat gone, the cities could send out their armies to unite and take on the Persian army.
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After defeating the doomed Spartan/Greek rear guard led by the Spartan king Leonidas at the narrow pass of Thermopylae the Persians went on to raid the Greek countryside and burned the Greek City-State of Athens . Afterwards , the Persians returned home .
Xerxes I of Persia was defeated in the naval battle of Salamis by Athenian admiral Themistocles .
They sent a fleet of ships/ navy and Themistocles was their captain.
Translated from latin: Alexander the Great defeating the last Darius, after 100,000 infantry and more than 10,000 cavalrymen had been killed amongst the ranks of the Persians. Whilst King Darius was able to flee with no more than 1,000 horsemen, his mother, wife, and children were taken prisoner.
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