User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-181289-20120319002919/@comment-2006360-20120319094039

There was a total of around 7,000 men, but all but around a thousand left to protect the rest of the city-states on the third day. In the end, only around 2,000 or so Greeks died at that 3-day battle.