The Battle Won Entirely by Weather — Rome's General Didn't Give a Single Order

At the Battle of the Eurymedon River in 466 BC, Athenian general Cimon faced a combined Persian land and naval force. Before engagement, a storm scattered the Persian fleet into a defensive position. Cimon attacked immediately — the storm had removed Persian maneuverability entirely. The naval battle lasted hours. Then Cimon turned his ships into troop transports, landed his sailors as infantry, and destroyed the Persian land army the same afternoon. He won two separate engagements — naval and land — in one day without a planned strategy for either. He simply kept attacking whatever the weather left him. Athens controlled the Aegean afterward for thirty years.

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