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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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?
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.

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