What major battle led the Athenians to a victory over the Persian forces by thinning their strongest men out along their entire army enabling them to swarm the left and right Persian flanks and forcing them to retreat into the nearby marshland?

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A	Battle of Salamis
B	Battle of Thermopylae
C	Battle of Marathon
D	Battle of Kalinga

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Battle of Marathon, (September 490 bce), in the Greco-Persian Wars, decisive battle fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica in which the Athenians, in a single afternoon, repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. was part of the first Persian invasion of Greece. The battle was fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica and marked the first blows of the Greco-Persian War.

Detailed explanation-3: -Battles of Plataea and Mycale (479 BC) At Plataea, the largest battle of the war, 100, 000 Persians were defeated by 40, 000 Greeks, including Athenian and Spartan hoplites. Mardonius lost his life on the battlefield, what remained of the Persian army limped home.

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