Ionian War: A Letter To Cousin Betty

Dear Cousin Betty, The war here is getting challenging and harder every moment. But I have hopes that we are going to win and get it all over with. The Persians attacked the Ionians and because we have nothing against the Ionians they asked us to allied with them. But they also asked some Greek city-states for help. The Spartan army was going against the Persians, but one thing has to be clear the Persians didn’t attack us directly we were asked to ‘group up’ with the Ionians and with Greek city-states. We were fighting in combat in Greek shore against the thousands of Persia men. Even though the shore was a bit hard to fight because of the difficulty walking through all that sand and then having the waters where you having a war going on. …show more content…
We would wear crimson tunic which would help to cover up our wounds if received. Although they had several mens we also had several men but not enough to meet with how much they had. Even with that information it was no time to worry but to get into our position and be ready to fight. We had a certain formality or fighting which you might find weird because in a war it can get confusing attacking your allies or your enemies. So what we did was to stand in a line and go about stabbing the enemies but also watch out for them trying attack you at the same time. I think I kinda got into a lot of details in the last few sentences but I am trying to show you what I’m living through. Here we taught to be able to do so many tasks and yet accomplish our one main goal to defeat the enemies. Having a good, ready, and undefeatable army is important not only to the people but to the whole nations. Men have to be ready to go to war at any given moment and be well prepared for the war. I will have to say the lives of men here are so different from the lives of men there. I guess I we have to do now is defeat the Persian and survive as the whole