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With a grievance.
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Marathon.
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The Persian king, Darius,
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annoyed by the notion of Greek freedom,
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has come to Greece to bring us to heel.
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He makes landfall at the field of Marathon
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with an invading force which outnumbers
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the Greek defenders three-to-one.
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And so at dawn,
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the hopeless Athenians do the unthinkable.
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They attack.
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They attack the weary Persians as they disembark.