In one of the greatest, yet now forgotten, small-unit engagements in American history, several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae.

In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet that was anchored off the nearby ...

The Spartans may have been the great warriors ... With these words, Leonidas rallied his men. They would hold Thermopylae—“the Hot Gates”—marking the land his men spill their enemies ...