Monday, January 30, 2017
King Leonidas
King Leonidas was a great king, but one day the Athenians
called to the Spartans becausethe Persians wanted to burn
their city to the ground but the Spartans answered the
Athenians calls so the Spartans got ready for battle.
This is a sadstory because 300 and more Spartans die,
but the Persians losses werevengreaterthan10,000.
The story is called the Battle of Thermopylae or the last stand of the 300 Spartans.
How the Spartans fight is that the Spartans line upand
put their shields in front of themselves. Each shield
overlaps one another and when the enemy forces into
them, the Spartans in the back reinforce the front. That
way they don’t move when the enemy moves back. The
Spartans put their right hands out with their shields, and
put their spears under or over your head. If you were in
the second row, you would put your spear above the first
row’s heads. If you were in the first row you would put
your spear under your shield and when the enemy moved
forward again, you would pull your spear back and thrust
the spear forward. But if you lost your spear you would
use your sword.
A tragic end of the Spartans: the Persians came from
behind and King Leonidas got killed by a Persian arrow.
There was a big battle for Leonidas body. The Persian
arrows killed the rest of them.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+last+300+spartans
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