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Operation Mardonius was a military operation directed against German ships in occupied Norway, planned and carried out in 1943 by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). The outcome of the operation was sinking of two ships in the harbour of Oslo, Ortelsburg of Hamburg and Tugela.

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Operation Mardonius

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old. Operation Mardonius was featured in the 2008 film Max Manus: Man of War, produced by John M. Jacobsen. The film's description of Mardonius deviates...

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Mardonius

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Mardonius may refer to: Mardonius (nephew of Darius I), Persian commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece Mardonius (philosopher), tutor and...

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First Persian invasion of Greece

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Persian camp, killing many of the Persians, and wounding Mardonius. Despite his injury, Mardonius made sure that the Brygians were defeated and subjugated...

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Battle of Plataea

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army in Europe. He left Mardonius, with hand-picked troops, to complete the conquest of Greece the following year. Mardonius evacuated Attica and wintered...

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Gregers Gram

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March 1943, and the two carried out a successful sabotage mission, Operation Mardonius, which resulted in the sinking of two ships and damage to a third...

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Battle of Thermopylae

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commander Mardonius to continue the Achaemenid Empire's Greek campaign. However, the following year saw a Greek army decisively defeat Mardonius and his...

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Battle of Salamis

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Spartan leadership, eventually agreed to try to force Mardonius to battle, and marched on Attica. Mardonius retreated to Boeotia to lure the Greeks into open...

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Einar Riis

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temerarious sinking of German military ships in the harbor of Oslo (Operation Mardonius), described in the Norwegian Resistance hero Max Manus' book "Det...

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List of shipwrecks in April 1943

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Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 8 June 2015. "War diary : German Naval Staff Operations Division, 2 April 1943". Retrieved 12 April 2023. "KT 13". Retrieved 12...

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Artemisia I of Caria

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general Mardonius in charge. Artemisia suggested to him that he should retreat back to Asia Minor and she advocated the plan suggested by Mardonius, who...

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Battle of Artemisium

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Peloponnesian Allies eventually agreed to try to force Mardonius to battle, and marched on Attica. Mardonius withdrew to Boeotia to lure the Greeks into open...

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Battle of Mycale

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in Europe. He thus left Mardonius, with handpicked troops, to complete the conquest of Greece the following year. Mardonius evacuated Attica, and wintered...

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Battle of Marathon

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dispatched an expedition to Greece under the command of his son-in-law, Mardonius. Mardonius re-subjugated Thrace and made Macedonia fully subordinate to the...

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List of military unit mottoes by country

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Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Before the Battle of Plataea, Mardonius offered the Athenians peace terms, with the hope of dividing the Greek...

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Christianity

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comprising perhaps only 5% of the Roman population. Influenced by his adviser Mardonius, Constantine's nephew Julian unsuccessfully tried to suppress Christianity...

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Roman Empire

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Constantinople and Rome. Julian, who under the influence of his adviser Mardonius attempted to restore Classical Roman and Hellenistic religion, only briefly...

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Ancient Greek warfare

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general Mardonius to campaign in Greece the following year (479 BC). However, a united Greek army of c. 40,000 hoplites decisively defeated Mardonius at the...

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Darius the Great

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BCE under Mardonius. Macedon had been a vassal kingdom of the Persians since the late 6th century BCE, but retained autonomy. Mardonius's 492 campaign...

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Classical Greece

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Asia Minor returned to Persian control. In 492 BC, the Persian general Mardonius led a campaign through Thrace and Macedonia. He was victorious and again...

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Ionian Revolt

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reconsider his position on the local governance of Ionia. The following year, Mardonius, another son-in-law of Darius, would travel to Ionia and abolish the tyrannies...

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Achaemenid Empire

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loosened following the Ionian Revolt. In 492 BC, the Persian general Mardonius re-subjugated Thrace and made Macedonia a fully subordinate part of the...

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History of the Roman Empire

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Licinius. The reign of Julian, who under the influence of his adviser Mardonius attempted to restore Classical Roman and Hellenistic religion, only briefly...

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470s BC

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commander Mardonius, now based in Thessaly, wins support from Argus and western Arcadia. He tries to win over Athens but fails. Mardonius attacks Athens...

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History of Turkey

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century BC, and were re-subjugated into the empire in 492 BC following Mardonius' campaign during the First Persian invasion of Greece. The territory of...

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Goths

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in the Roman military include Gainas, Tribigild, Fravitta and Aspar. Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, was the childhood tutor and later adviser of Roman emperor...

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History of Bulgaria

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loosened, but was firmly restored in 492 BC through the campaigns of Mardonius. The Balkans, including what is nowadays Bulgaria, provided many soldiers...

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History of the Balkans

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the Ionian Revolt, the Persian authority in the Balkans was restored by Mardonius in 492. This not only included the re-subjugation of Thrace, but also...

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