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Olympias’ Sea Battle with Persians
Myrtale  carefully noted that these Ships were built primarily of combustible materials wood, cloth, hemp, and pitch, and so the fire was a devastating weapon against them. Her priority was to find ways to set enemy ships on fire and she signaled to Astyanax. 

This involved rowing into gaps between enemy ships and then ramming them into the side. This maneuver would have required skills, which Myrtale had acquired and planed to draw the Persians into a constricted area, where their numbers would count for little. This feat was even more impressive when she drove miles into the sea in the middle of a storm beneath the Persian ships and cut their moorings with her spear, causing these ships to drift and run aground or damage other vessels.

Having damaged the vessels Myrtale gave a prearranged signal, the ships of Astyanax moved suddenly outwards from this position at a second signal, rowing into the Persian ships and catching them off guard. His superior seamanship negated, the Persians came off worst from the encounter with 30 of their ships captured or sunk. Her subterfuge appears to have played a key role in tipping the balance in the favor of the Greeks......Read Quest of Olympias and know more about Qlympias single handedly battle with Persians...Sivkishen, Author