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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e leaguefor the defence of their homes and firesides. It would seem that such a unionshould have been quick and ardent, but it wholly failed. Many of the Grecianstates were so panic-stricken by the rumble of the descending avalanche thatthey looked upon resistance as the height of madness, and made haste to sub-mit to Xerxes in many cases before he had time to demand such submission.Even those who were far beyond the line of march refused to take any part inthe congress. Let us remember that the only people north of the isthmus ofCorinth who stood true to the cause of Grecian liberty were the Athenians andPhocians and the people of the small Boeotian towns of Platsea and Thespas.Those in the northern part of Greece who were not allies of the Persians, likethe Thebans, had not enough patriotism to pay a fair price for their independ-ence. Over in Peloponnesus, the powerful city of Argos scowled and grimly shookher head to the appeal. The inhabitants could not forget the humiliation re-
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XERXES COMMANDS THE PUMSHMtNT OF THE SEA Greece—Dissensions of the Greeks 199 ceived a few years before from the Spartans, and they viewed with indifference,if not pleasure, the prospect of the evening up of matters by the Persian mon-arch. The Achaeans had also a sufficient grievance to hold them aloof, for hadnot their ancestors been driven from their homes by the Dorians? This desertion by their natural allies did not affect the resolution of Spartaand Athens to fight it out to the death with the barbarian multitudes that werepouring into the country like the inundation of the ocean itself. The Atheni-ans were wise in securing the friendship of the ^ginetans, whose powerfulnavy was of vast help to the common cause. The Spartans were given the su-preme command on land as well as sea, though the yEginetan ships comprisedtwo-thirds of the whole fleet. Themistocles was the soul of the congress, hismagnetic patriotism thrilling the others with his own dauntless spirit. Thepatriots swo

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