RESULTS: The Athenians are victorious and the Persians retreat to
Asia Minor.
c. Third Persian Expedition--481-480 B. C.
Xerxes desires to avenge his father’s defeat.
LEADERS: (1) =Xerxes=; (2) Leonidas, Eurybiades, Themistocles.
CHIEF ACTIONS: (1) =Thermopylæ=, _Salamis_, =Artemisium=, =Athens
burned.=
RESULTS: Xerxes retreats to Persia after his defeat at Salamis.
d. Fourth Persian Expedition--479 B. C.
War continued by troops which Xerxes left behind.
LEADERS: (1) =Mardonius=; (2) Pausanias, Aristides.