In the war between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, in which battle did the Greeks defeat Persia?

The Greek-Persian war was the first large-scale international war in Europe and Asia in the history of the world, which lasted for nearly half a century. Its scale and far-reaching influence on the economy and culture of the East and the West are unprecedented in the history of Europe and Asia.

First of all, let me introduce these two heavyweight players to you.

Persia was a slave country in ancient West Asia, which was developed through conquest. By the time of Darius' rule, Persia had become the first powerful empire across Europe, Asia and Africa in ancient world history.

Ancient Greece is the source of western culture. Due to the limitation of topography, many city-states are separated by mountains, and there is little land transportation in the middle. Hundreds of city-states are independent and closely related to each other, including Athens and Sparta, which we are familiar with.

From the contrast of combat power, Persia is a famous war empire, while Greece is an integrated army temporarily formed by several city-States. Looks like Persia is the winner. However, Persia's three invasions of Greece ended in failure, and finally signed the Peace Treaty of Caria as a defeated country. Here, we have to mention the turning point of the Persian war-the naval battle of Salamis.

After the Persian army captured the hot spring pass, the mighty army marched straight into Athens. At the same time, the Persian navy also bypassed the island of Euphrates and came to Piraeus, the outer port of Athens. They went hand in hand with land and completed the siege of the Greek fleet. Under the command of Timmy stokely, the desperate Greek joint fleet quickly formed. Taking advantage of its small and fast ship, he tactfully commanded the Athenian warship to attack the Persian warship obliquely. First, he cut off the long oars of the heavy Persian warship, then turned the bow and hit its abdomen with the bow with a copper sleeve. Persian warships were sunk one after another.

After a fierce battle, the Persian vanguard fleet could not resist and was forced to retreat. Persian warships reinforced from behind collided head-on with retreating ships, and the scene was in chaos. Timmy stokely took the opportunity to command the whole army to attack in all directions, and the Greeks became more and more brave, while the Persian navy had been on the coastline and left the Salamis Strait despondently.

From then on, the initiative of the Sino-Persian war was completely manipulated by the Greeks, which eventually not only drove the Persians out of Europe completely, but also liberated the Greek immigrant city-states along the coast of Asia Minor that had been occupied by Persia for a long time. In 449 BC, the Greek army completely defeated Persia on the island of Cyprus and the two sides signed a peace treaty, thus ending the Greek-Persian war.