the cavalry weren’t effective as they were not there! they took to the ships on the 3rd day and sailed toCape Sounion to attack Athens directly. this left the lightly armed troops and archers at marathon ( around 20,000). the archers weren’t effective as there overall range is 200 yards and to counter act this the Athenians ran the 200 yards in the mile ‘no mans land’ so the archers were still deadly just after the hop lite troops met the lightly armoured ones there was only to be one outcome

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