Note 4 — THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND
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A plain eighteen miles northeast of Athens, between Mount Pentelicus and the sea, where, B. C. 490, 10,000 Greeks and 1,000 Platæans, under Miltiades, defeated 100,000 Persians, thereby destroying Darius’s scheme for subjugating Greece.
“The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”
Byron, Don Juan, canto iii, stanza 86, 3.