IL439465 The Brave Three Hundred, c.1940s (litho) by Brock, Richard Henry (1871-1943); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration from Newnes\' Pictorial Knowledge, depicting the valiant last stand of the 300 Spartan soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae, 480BC; The allied Greek forces resisted the vastly superior Persian army for seven days before being overwhelmed;); British, out of copyright.