Mycale

The island is only a mile from Greece’s traditional arch rival Turkey, separated by the narrow Mycale strait.

That struggle was not terminated by the battle of Mycale and the capture of Sestos in 479 B.C.

It was at the very time,—for History is notoriously fond of synchronisms for her greatest events,—witness Mycale and Plat�a, fought and won on the self-same day,—it was at the very time that Papineau and the Canadian rebels took up swords and guns to resist Sir John Colborne and the English troops,—that the old women of Stow, in the parts of Lindsey, took up eggs to pelt the parish parson!

Their social life, their forms of government, their autonomy remained; even the common sacrifices and assemblies of the Ionian cities at Mycale were permitted to continue.

Conscious that their submission on the conditions proposed had been refused, the cities of the Ionian tribe took counsel at their old common place of sacrifice on the shore of the sea, opposite Samos, under Mount Mycale.