Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 209
ers and lions skins, some wore the skins ofhorses heads, and helmets of twisted brass,while others carried shields of rawhide, orsmeared their bodies with chalk and red ocher.Like a mighty avalanche this great host pouredover the country and everywhere spread con-sternation and ruin. Already the… … DESTRUCTION OF THE PERSIAN FLEET BY THE GREEKS, IN THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS, FOUGHT 480 made at Thermopylae, which cost the Persianking twenty thousand men, and made the Gre-cian warriors immortal, although it failed tosave their country. After this the whole ofGreece lay open to the invaders.…
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