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To: average joe who wrote (261089)	4/9/2008 12:57:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

the Spartans with only 300 men defeated Xerxes army of one million Well initially it was more like 10K or more Greeks. And the Persian army was probably more like a quarter of a million. Even after most of the Greeks left is was 1000 (300 Spartans and 700 or so others) vs about a quarter of a million. (So about 250 to one odds rather than 3333 to 1), and most importantly the Spartans didn't actually win (they where wiped out). Not that this invalidates the point your trying to make, it just might not be the best example. Or if you want to use it as an example it would be more like "10,000 Greeks held off 250,000 Persians" not "300 Spartans defeated a million Persians".