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Battle of Mycale

Type Event Region Asia Minor Time -479

In August 479 BCE, on the same day as the land battle at Plataea, a joint Greek fleet landed near Mount Mycale on the western coast of Asia Minor, ro…

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  1. -479Mount Mycale · IoniaThe Greek fleet, led by the Spartan king Leotychidas and the Athenian commander Xanthippus, crossed the Aegean and landed at the foot of Mount Mycale, forming an east-west counterpart to the land battle at Plataea.
  2. -479Mount Mycale · IoniaGreek infantry charged the Persian camp, and the Persian forces broke and fled inland. The Greeks burned the Persian fleet beached along the shore, and the Ionian cities one after another declared their independence from Persian rule.

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