This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 edition. Excerpt: ... B otians hurried away with them the whole of the Persian right wing (A). Aristides, far from pursuing them, immediately proceeded to join the Lacedaemonians, who, little versed in the art of conducting sieges, were employed in fruitless attacks on the fortisication by which the Persians were defended. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 edition. Excerpt: ... B otians hurried away with them the whole of the Persian right wing (A). Aristides, far from pursuing them, immediately proceeded to join the Lacedaemonians, who, little versed in the art of conducting sieges, were employed in fruitless attacks on the fortisication by which the Persians were defended. The arrival of the Athenians and the rest of the confederated troops did not terrify the besieged, who furioufly repulsed the assailants; but the Athenians at length forcing the intrenchment, and destroying a part of the wall, the Greeks rushed into the camp, and the Persians suffered themselves to be flaugh-- tered like victims (/'). Artabazus, who had under his command a body of forty thousand men, but who had long been secretly offended as the choice Xerxes had made of Mardonius to command the army, had from the beginning of the battle advanced rather to be a spectator than with any view of contributing to its success. He accordingly no sooner saw the army of Mardonius give ground, than he ordered his troops to fellow him; and taking to flight, took the road of Phocis, crossed the sea at Byzantium (k), and repaired to Asia, where his having saved a part of the army was perhaps imputed to him as a merit. All the remainder, except about three thousand men, perished, either in the intrenchment or the battle. The nations that most distinguished themselves on this memorable day were, on the one side, the Persians and the Sacae; and on the other, the Lacedaemonians, the Athenians, and the inhabitants of Tegea. Great encomiums. were bestowed by the victors on the valour of Mardonius, the Athenian Sophanes, and four Spartans, at the head of whom wo must place Aristodemus, who had resolved on this occasion to free himself from the
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