In one of the greatest, yet now forgotten, small-unit engagements in American history, several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae.

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely ... organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought ... men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans. Xerxes waited for 10 days ...