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300 SPARTANS
300 SPARTANS were highly-trained MILITARY HEROES who fought against the Army of 1 MILLION PERSIANS and were famous for NEVER SURRENDERING. KING LEONIDAS declared to his army of 300 SPARTANS: "Eat hearty, lads, for today we dine in Hades" as they ate their final meal. 300 SPARTANS were highly-trained MILITARY HEROES who fought against the Army of 1 MILLION PERSIANS and were famous for NEVER SURRENDERING. KING LEONIDAS declared to his army of 300 SPARTANS: "Eat hearty, lads, for today we dine in Hades" as they ate their final meal.
300 SPARTANS BIOGRAPHY
(Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.)
 
300 SPARTANS were highly-trained MILITARY HEROES who fought against the Army of 1 MILLION PERSIANS and were famous for NEVER SURRENDERING.  KING LEONIDAS declared to his army of 300 SPARTANS: "Eat hearty, lads, for today we dine in Hades" as they ate their final meal.
 
The Spartans were from the ancient city of Sparta, in the south of Greece. The government trained specific males from the age of 7 to become tough and brutal soldiers and devote their lives to fighting as a Spartan. If the children did not meet the standards of toughness, they were left in the mountains and abandoned. The Spartan females also underwent physical training to toughen them up. The Spartiates (Spartan citizens) made up the finest army in Greece. Each military unit comprised of only 40 men, giving them more flexibility, movement and discipline. In Sparta, the women had more power and education than any other women in the Ancient world. Women also controlled their own properties.
 
The Spartan warriors fought in a "phalanx": shoulder-to-shoulder unit, like a tank. In 480 B.C., King Xerxes (Persian King) and his Persian Army of reportedly 2 million invaded Greece in the famous Battle of Thermopylae. The Persians set out to conquer Greece, but the King of Sparta, King Leonidas I led his army of 300 Spartans to prevent the Persians from passing. The 300 Spartans were joined by other Greek forces, and made an army of 14,000. After fighting for 2 days, one Greek resident betrayed the Greek army by revealing a path that was behind the Greek lines to the Persian army. King Leonidas sent away all the Greek troops after realizing that the Persians had outmaneuvered them. King Leonias' 300 Spartan fighters STAYED WITH HIM to the END, along with 900 Helots (Greek slaves) and 700 Thespians (Townspeople). They ALL REFUSED TO LEAVE. As they ate their final meal, Leonidas allegedly declared: "Eat hearty, lads, for today we dine in Hades." Leonidas and his troops were all killed  King Leonidas was beheaded by the Persians in a vicious act of insult to the Greeks.
 
The army of 300 Spartans is famous for NEVER backing down, NEVER Surrendering and NEVER RETREATING. They are a powerful example of courage and bravery, even when the odds were against them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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