The Persians loaded their cavalry onto their ships to sneak around and capture Athens while the Athenian army was confronting the Persian army at Marathon, and awaiting the arrival of Spartan reinforcements.

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Seeing the superior Persian cavalry gone, the Athenians and their Plataian allies rand down out of the hills where they had been lurking and defeated the inferior Persian infantry who were exposed by their lack of cavalry.

Having defeated them, the Athenians realised where the Persian cavalry was going and ran back the 26 miles to Athens and formed up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry was preparing to dash up and take the city. The Persians, defeated at Marathon and frustrated at Athens, went home.

The run by the Athenian army is commemorated today withe the 26 mile marathon race, however today’s runners don’t have to run in sandals and carry armour, shields and weapons.

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