Battle of Mycale

Charging - Marathon - Thermopylae - Artemisium - Salamis - Plataea - Mycale - Eurymedon

In the battle of Mycale in the strait between the ionic promontory of Mycale and the island of Samos, the disembarked crews of Greek and Persian fleet 479 BC delivered during the Persian Wars, a battle that took place about the same time as the Battle of Plataea.

Course

The Spartan king Leotychidas and the Athenian general Xanthippos triumphed over the Persians. The Greeks destroyed (this time also supported by the Ionians ) the remnants of the Persian fleet, which had survived the Battle of Salamis. The fight took place on land, as the Persian ships had been drawn under the protection of the army on land. The Greek troops destroyed the ships there during and after the battle with the Persian garrisons.