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at battles onset a fearless stand.

The enemy so small in number,

they shall soon all find eternal slumber

our mighty fleet tossed asunder

it really makes me start to wonder

how can we stop them, these mighty few

we outman them a over hundred to two

how can they fight on, how can they resist,

the immortal fingers of my divine fist

one last hope far out of our way

could we finally slay them on this dreary day

hurrah! At last.

We’ve finally got them in this accursed pass

my patience was ending, my confidance gone

if these few could stop us do we dare move on

what battle is this and who am i?

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Thermopylae

and King Xerxes

at Thermopylae the Persians sent ships to destroy the guardians of the pass, but the Athenian fleet stopped them and destroyed the Persian fleet.

Persian kings used the "immortals", spear men who were named such because there were always more of them in Persia.

And most should know about the stand of the 300spartans and the 1000 archers of Thebes.

sadness, i wrote for too long

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Nicely put riddle..i had no clue and only after the answer was posted did i google and read the whole story...

The time is August 480 b.c.; the place, Thermopylae, Greece; the occasion, the aftermath of a great battle. A vast army of Persians was on the march to conquer Greece. A small force of Greeks had been all that stood in their way. And yet, in a pass that narrows to a space smaller than a baseball diamond, the impossible almost happened. For three days, just over seventy-one hundred Greeks, spearheaded by an elite unit of three hundred Spartans, gave a savage beating to a Persian army that outnumbered them by perhaps 20-to-1. About 150,000 men willing to die for the glory of Xerxes, the Persian Great King, came up against the most efficient killing machine in history.

Thanks for posting such a riddle...

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