The winning side attempted to delay this battle since their allies were in the middle of a ten day festival called the Carneia.
A campaign two years prior to this battle saw one the combatants force the capitulation of Alexander I of Macedon and conquer Thrace. This battle was immediately preceded by the sack of Naxos and the siege of Eritrea. A famous anecdote about this battle tells of how Cynaegirus tried to bring one of the loser's ships back to shore by latching onto its prow. The winning side attempted to delay this battle since their allies were in the middle of a ten day festival called the Carneia. Though the polemarch, Callimachus commanded the right wing on the winning side and the forces of Datis and Artaphernes were pushed back to their ships by a charge led by another strategos, Militiades. Phidippides was sent on a 26 mile run to report an Atheinan victory at, for ten points, what 490 BC battle that brought Darius' invasion of Greece to an end.
A campaign two years prior to this battle saw one the combatants force the capitulation of Alexander I of Macedon and conquer Thrace.
Battle of {Marathon}