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Story by Charles Spencer • 4h ago

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"...Perhaps the most famous such unit were the hippeis – the Spartan knights who, as celebrated in print and celluloid ever since, formed ‘the 300’ who fought to the last man against hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers, at Thermopylae, in 480 BC..."

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