Battle of Marathon

Video about the battle, in case you were too bored to read Herodatus.
(it's in book VI: alas the Librivox audiobook is only up to book III)

why did the Greeks win? It's the phalanx...Videolinkand tactics...the flanking maneurver used with a frontal assault.


the Marathon gets it's name from the battle: "... The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon (the namesake of the race) to Athens..."

And a similar frontal/flanking maneuver probably saved the battle of Gettysburg, and the republic of the US.