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in the history of the league.
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The Persians have a fleet in the--
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well, you can't really call it the Aegean,
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it's around the corner on the southern coast of Asia Minor,
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the Eurymedon river flows out there
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and they had a fleet and an army inland.
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The league forces went there to the Eurymedon under the command of Cimon,
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defeated and crushed the Persian fleet at sea,
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landed and defeated the Persian army on the land,
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and that was a terrible blow to the Persian position
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in the eastern Mediterranean.
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The evidence is apparently that the Persians had to pull back