The people of Lemnos laughed at Miltiades, telling him they would gladly do what he asked -- permit their island to become a colony of Athens, but only if Miltiades could get there by sailing from home with a north wind. Miltiades little thought that he'd find a way around this impossible wind direction, but he succeeded.
Find out how Miltiades annexed Lemnos, won the hatred of Darius of Persia, and more in this biography of Miltiades, by Bingley.