In 480BC the messengers were sent To ask the Greek lands to surrender The Persian king Xerxes had raised a massive force With which he would conquer all King Leonidas felt his anger boil As he spoke for everyone in his land He would not bow down to any foreign king Then he threw them down a pit into deaths awaiting hand The king of Sparta gathered hundreds of his men And led them to Thermopylae To the one pass Xexes would traverse Narrow passage between mountain and sea Xerxes army there soon faced the Grecian force But this advantage was undone by the pass The Greek defenders destroyed them as they came Each advancing Persian group was cut down to the last To the last Victory seemed close at hand For two days the Greeks succeeded holding their foes at bay Their fortunes did not last long, that night they were betrayed A Thessalian named Ephialtes showed Xerxes a different path Persians would soon surround them, ending their bloodbath The Grecian armies were far outnumbered King Leonidas saw only one chance He sent back most of his brethren There he would make his final stand The Spartan Kings plan proved a success He gave the Greeks the time they would need With generator force they returned once more In northern Greece the Persians would bleed
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