Talk:Battle in New York 2018/@comment-4967984-20180921094615/@comment-26858501-20180921095758

The 300 doesn't include Leonidas. In the movie, he asked his general to assemble the 300 best Spartan soldiers.

"Although the Ephors have denied him permission to mobilize Sparta's army, Leonidas gathers three hundred of his best soldiers in the guise of his personal bodyguard. They are joined along the way by Arcadians. At Thermopylae, they construct the wall made up of stones and slain Persian scouts as mortar, angering a Persian emissary. Stelios, an elite Spartan soldier, orders the former to go back to the Persian lines and warn Xerxes, after cutting off his whipping arm."