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If you talk about the "Raid at Cabanatuan" it has no similarities with the battle of Thermopylae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan

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Cristina, in Thermopylae there were not just 1000 "silly" soldiers that knew that they will lost and still chose to stay. They were 7000 greek warriors facing, in the narrow path, an army of nearly 300000 soldiers of the persian empire. The battle lasted 3 days and at the same time there was a battle of Artemisium was taking place at the sea.

The 1000 greeks stayed there the last day to cover the other greeks who were retreating. They chose to die to save the other soldiers who were going back to live and fight another day. We lost 1000 brave men in the battle of Thermopylae but we didnt lost the war because we won in the battles of Salamis and Platea.

The sacrifice of the greek warriors in Thermopylae had a great impact on the moral of persian army and as for the greeks, until today is the ultimate act of heroism that inspired greek fighters through the centuries.

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En9cW9bLhc

2007-09-06 01:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by Hoplite 3 · 3 0

In the battle of Thermopylae a few heroic (yet silly, if you ask me) Spartans and Thespians refused to surrender to a huge Persian army, knowing that they were going to die.
I don't know the history of the Philippines, so don't expect to find this in the Greek section (perhaps ask at the Philippines section).

2007-09-06 08:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 0 4

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