<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Marathon">Battle of Marathon</a>: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Athens" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Classical Athens">Athenians</a> and their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plataea" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Plataea">Plataean</a> allies defeat the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Persian_invasion_of_Greece" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Persian invasion of Greece">first Persian invasion force of Greece</a>.<sup about="#mwt18" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_12#cite_note-1" id="mwFw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGA">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt15" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMargiotta1994">Margiotta, Franklin D. (1994). <i id="mwB58">Brassey's Encyclopedia of Military History and Biography</i>. Washington: Brassey's. p.<span id="mwB6A" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>386. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB6E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB6I" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-0288-1096-6" id="mwB6M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-0288-1096-6"><bdi id="mwB6Q">978-0-0288-1096-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt15" class="Z3988" id="mwB6U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Brassey%27s+Encyclopedia+of+Military+History+and+Biography&amp;rft.place=Washington&amp;rft.pages=386&amp;rft.pub=Brassey%27s&amp;rft.date=1994&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-0288-1096-6&amp;rft.aulast=Margiotta&amp;rft.aufirst=Franklin+D.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+12"></span></span>