Tghis illustration shows Xerxes at Abydos giivng orders for his army to depart across the Hellespont on the following day. Xerxes and his huge army had marched from Sardis to Abydos, then an important harbor on the Hellespont, where he had two bridges built to take his army across the body of water, but they were destroyed by a storm before the army arrived. In 480 , the time of the so-called Persian Wars, the Greek fleet decisively defeated the Persians, under King Xerxes, at Salamis, an island in the Gulf of Aegina in eastern Greece. Among the Greek leaders was Themistocles.

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