March of the Ten Thousand
401 BCE–399 BCE · Event
Greek mercenaries' fighting retreat through Persia after Cyrus's death at Cunaxa; narrated in Xenophon's Anabasis.
On these timelines: Ancient Greece, Persia and Iran, Master
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