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158 - How to Defeat Persia if They Invade You

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The History of Ancient Warfare

Greeks were about double the boats or even triple by some accounts on the Persian side right that's a lot of boats yeah that's the rumor mm-hmm i think both is my understanding one of the really frustrating things about ancient warfare is we don't get much of a description of how these fights went down other than chaos. Ancient historians like to tell us when there was chaos or when somebody got tricked they seem to really revel in that but the ancient historians don't give us much about well the Athenian right with 1200 men performed a wheel maneuver about half an hour into the battle and caught the Persian left making a folding maneuver  that allowed pressure the long spears and uh you

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