I remember the stone beneath my feet.

The narrow pass that would not let us retreat.

And an enemy so vast it seemed without end.

In this episode of Told Through Their Eyes, Leonidas of Sparta recounts the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) — the stand that history remembers as sacrifice, not defeat.

This is not a lesson, and not a list of dates.

It is memory.

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I remember the dust rising across the plain.
An army larger than any I had faced before.
And a king who believed numbers alone would end me.

In this episode of Told Through Their Eyes, Alexander the Great recounts the Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC) — the day the Persian Empire fell.

This is not a lesson, and not a list of dates.
It is memory.

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Julius Caesar recounts his experience at the Battle of the Sabis .

A moment when victory nearly slipped away and everything hung in the balance.

Told in his own voice, this is history as it was lived.

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