How Sparta Avenged LEONIDAS — The Revenge Persia Tried to Erase From History

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How Sparta Avenged LEONIDAS — The Revenge Persia Tried to Erase They called Thermopylae the end of Spartan resistance. They were wrong. Eleven months after 300 Spartans died at the Hot Gates, Sparta returned - not with 300 men, but with 10,000. And this time, they weren't there to hold a pass. They were there to collect. The Battle of Plataea, 479 BC. The largest land battle in Greek history. The day the Persian Empire's invasion of Europe ended in a wooden stockade filled with the dead. This is the chapter history forgot, buried in the shadow of Thermopylae's legend. From the desecration of Leonidas's body to the stone that killed a Persian general and broke an empire, this is the full story of Sparta's revenge. 👉 Subscribe to Crimson Historians 🔔 Where history bleeds, and the forgotten are finally heard. 🔴 https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC3ZAb7FQnO99RkT4YAUklkg #Sparta #AncientGreece #CrimsonHistorians #DarkHistory #GreekHistory #Thermopylae #Plataea #PersianEmpire #Leonidas #HistoryChannel #BrutalHistory #AncientWarfare #HiddenHistory #HistoricalDocumentary #Xerxes Keywords: Sparta, Battle of Plataea, Leonidas, Thermopylae revenge, Persian Wars, ancient Greece, Spartan warriors, Xerxes, Mardonius, Greek history, dark history, crimson historians, ancient warfare, 300 Spartans, Battle of Plataea 479 BC, Pausanias, Persian Empire, Greco-Persian Wars, hidden history, historical documentary ⚠️ This documentary is for educational and historical purposes only. All claims are supported by primary historical sources and peer-reviewed scholarship. Sources: Herodotus (Histories, Book IX), Plutarch (Aristides), Diodorus Siculus (Library of History), Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War) | Modern Scholarship: Lazenby, The Defence of Greece (Aris & Phillips, 1993); Green, The Greco-Persian Wars (University of California Press, 1996) 📺🔥WATCH NEXT: 🎬The Grotesque Reality of Ottoman Justice That History Tried to Hide - https://youtu.be/9T2mQoNJlbw 🎬LEONIDAS: The Real MONSTER Hollywood Didn’t Show You - https://youtu.be/0U2Mcps71Pc 🎬King Xerxes’ Dark Obsession Ended in One of History’s Most Brutal Punishments - https://youtu.be/XLu2H3y2c88 🎬The Horrific Fate of the Men Who Killed Julius Caesar - https://youtu.be/qg6QZMWhtZE 🎬What Vlad the Impaler Did to Ottoman Prisoners Shocked Even His Enemies - https://youtu.be/FgxXcO8dtrI Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100747 Artist: http://incompetech.com/