The Greek Battle Of Marathon

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Marathon
In 490BC the Athenians marched to the bay a marathon to push back the armies of Persia. There are a lot of battles and a lot of men killed some of them even killed. 11,000 men were in the battels, all the men will get killed by the others. There were a lot of battles because of the Battle of Marathon.
There was a helmet that the Greek wore in the battles. There were wild horses. The stood shoulder to shoulder. Then brother to brother. Soon the battles will begin. They will have to move quickly. 1,000 of men where died. Nine years after the Greek cities rebelled, Darrius invaded Greece.
He and his army sailed to the plains of marathon near Athens. This invasion began a Persians of wars between Persia and Greece that historians call

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