Battle of Counaxa
The battles of Counaxa was held in 401 av. J. - C. between Cyrus the Young person and his Arsaces older brother who had seized in 404 av. J. - C. of the Persian throne under the name of Artaxerxès II. Cyrus gathered its army of Mercenaire S Greek ordered by the general Sparte Cléarque. Its troops met those of Artaxerxès with Counaxa on left bank of the Euphrate, with approximately 70 km in the north of Babylon. The result of the battle is dubious but insofar as Cyrus died at the time of the combat, it was a victory for Artaxerxès.
After the death of Cyrus, Cléarque took the command of the troops and led the retirement. Cléarque and the other Greek generals were captured by treachery by Tissapherne, given to Artaxerxès and were carried out. The retirement of the Ten Thousand was then directed by Xénophon. The Greeks, then committed deeply in Persian territory, had to cut through a path towards north to reach the Black Sea. This history is told in the Anabase writes by Xénophon.
External bonds
- battles of Artaxerxès II
- the forwarding of the Ten Thousand
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