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Mardonius
Mardonius was a Persian general, nephew and son-in-law of Darius I. He led an expedition to Thrace and Macedonia in 492 BCE and commanded the land forces left in Greece by Xerxes after Salamis in 480 BCE. He reoccupied Athens in 479 BCE but was defeated and killed by the allied Greeks under the Spartan Pausanias at the Battle of Plataea, ending the Persian invasion.
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