Thermopylae 480BC, Spartan and Thespaian Hoplites. By Chris Collingwood. (GL) ART211 17th Lancers

17th Lancers

HMS Magicienne by W Fred Mitchell

killing all but one of her crew

flown by Sqn Ldr Maurice Brown

a Buccaneer and a Fairey Gannet

Thermopylae 480BC, Spartan and Thespaian Hoplites. By Chris Collingwood. (GL) ART211 17th LancersDHM1243GL. Thermopylae 480BC, Spartan and Thespaian Hoplites. By Chris Collingwood. So Tell The Spartans, Stranger passing by that here, Obedient to their laws, we lie. In 480 BC the Spartans tried to defend the pass at Thermopylae against the Persians led by Xerxes. The Persian fleet had sailed along the coastline from northern Greece into the Gulf of Malia on the eastern Aegean Sea towards the mountains at Thermopylae. The Greek General and King