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The Persian Army 560-330 BC - Sekunda, Nicholas
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The Persian Empire grew in the vacuum left by Assyria's destruction of the Kingdom of Elam (648 BC). Prince Teispes captured Anshan, once a stonghold of the Elamites. His father, Achaemenes is the person who is apparently responsible for training and organising the early Persian army and it is his name that is the beginning of the royal line of Achaemenian Kings. It is a dynasty which includes Darius the Great - the finest ruler of the Achaemenid era. The army he commanded included the infamous 'Immortals', who formed the ...

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The Persian Army 560-330 BC 1992, Osprey Publishing (UK), New York

ISBN-13: 9781855322509

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