User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-181289-20120319002919

I would like to make a comment of the "Thermoplyae Vicotry" The Persians did win but it was a highly Pyrrhis victory. They only manged to kill a little over a 1000 greeks in the entire 3 battle, the Greeks are killed many more Persians and halted a the much larger army for 3 days, they only lost when 1, they were betrayed and the 2. the Greeks guarding the pass to flank the other Greeks abandoned there post to defend there own citys. This is not a good example of intelligent military tatics, more of how not fight a battle, throwing man after man into a choke point against more heavy infantry.

Back onto the point, Alexander wins, he knew how to invade a foriegn land and win Xerxes made a poor decesion on marching his army into greece, Xerxes battle example shows how to hurt your own army despite having a numrical advantage, Alexanders shows the opposite, how to win with a numrically inferior force.