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No. 1836
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>I doubt the Persian king was actually there (forget his name right now).
He most certainly wasn't, in fact when he heard that his generals had basically thrown massive amounts of effectively armed peasants at the pass he flew into a rage and had those generals executed.
Because he knew that Spartan Phalanxes were considered to be the greatest heavy infantry in the world at that time.
The phalanx has been likened to great big military meat grinding machine, and Xerxes knew this.
Oh, and whilst the shepard who betrayed them did exist, and the stories did say that he was horribly deformed, most historians agree that this was just something storytellers came up with so that the audiance would know that he's a wrong'un.
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