Battle of Marathon

[silver]

Can anyone tell me who won the battle of marathon? I learnt about this at school and can't for the life of me remember what went on.

[leaverr]

It was in 490BC and the Persians (the Man Utd of their day) invaded Greece. The Athenians met them at Marathon, and with the help of a fine pincer movement, drove them back into the sea and slaughtered them. According to Herodotus in his book The Histories there were only 192 Athenian casualties compared with 6,400 of the Persians. Quite a stuffing. The battle has gone into legend because an Athenian messenger ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce the great victory to the locals. He died immediately after parting with the news.

[HughJarse]

leaverr appears to have hit the nail on the head. However, in more modern times the answer is Snickers.

[Phil Mobile]

Further to Leaverr's answer, the name of the messenger was Philipedes.

[blink182]

Not many people know that he ran to Sparta to ask for thier help and then ran back to Marathon ( like 160miles) in 3 days. He finally carked it after running 42km to Athens. The Atheniens ended up winning without Sparta