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Originally Posted by shoestring
I am not positive but didn't the Spartan's need to cut off the Hun's at Thermopelae and some guy had to run the marathon to warn Sparta?
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It wasn't the Huns, it was the Persians.
The Marathon run occured after the Athenian victory over a previous Persian invasion at the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. The runner ran 26 miles to Athens to tell the city of the victory.
(Wikipedia) Battle of Marathon info...
The Battle of Thermopylae was in 480 B.C.
(Wikipedia) Battle of Thermopylae info...
The Huns started invading the Roman Empire 800 years later.