ocr: Xerxes - : king ofPersia from 485 until 465 BC.He campaigned against Hellas with 2000000 men in the spring of - 480 BC. He facedno resistanc e until he came to Thermopile where he went into battle with] Leonidas' 300 brave men. He went through an enormous destruction of his fleet in the sea-battle of Salamina. Assassinated in 465 BC.
