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Excerpt from The Military Annals of Greece, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War The credit for the victory of Salamis belongs solely to Themistocles, the Athenian, the greatest admiral and strategist of his age. He compelled Eurybiades, the Spartan commander, to fight in the straits, after the proposition had been voted down twice, in council. Themistocles saw very. Clearly What his associates were unable or unwilling to see, that if he could get the Per sians to fight in the narrow straits, the numerical supe riority of the enemy would not avail, and their num bers would retard and embarrass rather than aid them, because they would not have sufficient sea room to manoeuvre their many ships to advantage in the chan nel. The Greeks, on the other hand, with a compara tively small number of ships, would have the advantage because a large part of the Persian eet would be pre cluded from taking part. But the clear and forcible argument of Themistocles fell upon deaf ears. The Spartans were dull or stupid or both, and they promptly voted against every plan proposed by the Athenian commander. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.