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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Greek army is composed of all kind of people from all over the Mediterranean, including exiles and runaway slaves.
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* BadassArmy: The Ten Thousand. The sudden capture and execution of their officers only led to some panic until [[SneezeOfDoom a sneeze occurred to one man]] (a sneeze was seen as a sign of the gods) which emboldened them to re-organize and march all the way back to Greece. Their morale held out to do this over ''two years'' before they succeeded. Lacking the clothing for winter in Armenia proves to be more lethal to them than whatever battles they got up to in the season.
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* BadassArmy: The Ten Thousand. They start off strong with their hoplites routing twice their number at Cunaxa at the cost of one wounded until it turned out [[PyrrhicVictory Cyrus the Younger was already killed anyway and made their victory immaterial]]. The sudden capture and execution of their officers only led to some panic until [[SneezeOfDoom a sneeze occurred to one man]] (a sneeze was seen as a sign of the gods) which emboldened them to re-organize and march all the way back to Greece. Their morale held out to do this over ''two years'' before they succeeded. Lacking the clothing for winter in Armenia proves to be more lethal to them than whatever battles they got up to in the season. Xenophon also hypes up the Carduchians as "...a fierce, war-like race, who had never been conquered. Once the Great King had sent into their country an army of 120,000 men, to subdue them, but of all that great host not one had ever seen his home again.", but the Ten Thousand defeat them in a battle with a combination diversionary-and-flanking attack (though they pursue the Ten Thousand some more later).
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* BadassArmy: The Ten Thousand. The sudden capture and execution of their officers only led to some panic until [[SneezeOfDoom a sneeze occurred to one man]] (a sneeze was seen as a sign of the gods) which emboldened them to re-organize and march all the way back to Greece. Lacking the clothing for winter in Armenia proves to be more lethal to them than whatever battles they got up to in the season.
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* BadassArmy: The Ten Thousand. The sudden capture and execution of their officers only led to some panic until [[SneezeOfDoom a sneeze occurred to one man]] (a sneeze was seen as a sign of the gods) which emboldened them to re-organize and march all the way back to Greece. Their morale held out to do this over ''two years'' before they succeeded. Lacking the clothing for winter in Armenia proves to be more lethal to them than whatever battles they got up to in the season.
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* EasyLogistics: [[AvertedTrope Absolutely not]], of course. The Ten Thousand managing to keep themselves fed
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* EasyLogistics: [[AvertedTrope Absolutely not]], of course. The just-about-titular Ten Thousand (Xenophon said they originally numbered 10,400) managing to keep themselves fedfed over the thousands of kilometers all the way back to Greece is a pretty shocking feat, which they generally obtained by the usual method an army does things - [[RapePillageAndBurn by force]].
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* FrontlineGeneral: All over the place, including both Cyrus and the King of Persia. Cyrus' example [[DecapitatedArmy led to a fairly foreseeable conclusion to his story.]]
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* FrontlineGeneral: All over the place, including both Cyrus and the King of Persia. Cyrus' example [[DecapitatedArmy led to a fairly foreseeable conclusion to his story.story...]]
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* KeystoneArmy: Played with. After Cyrus's death, the rest of his army scatters, but the Greek mercenaries hold fast and [[BackFromTheBrink win the day on their own]] -- [[ShaggyDogStory for all the good that ends up doing them]].
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* KeystoneArmy: Played with. After Cyrus's death, the rest of his army scatters, but the Greek mercenaries hold fast and [[BackFromTheBrink win the day on their own]] -- [[ShaggyDogStory for all the good that ends up doing them]]. It sort of happens again when Tissaphernes betrays and executes the Ten Thousand's officers - the remainder panic at the news only for a spell before electing new officers and continuing their journey back to Greece.
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* StraightForTheCommander: Before the battle with the king, Cyrus, who knows where the king is, orders Clearchus to use this strategy. Cleachus, unfortunately, refuses. And then the intent of such a strategy [[DecapitatedArmy ends up happening to Cyrus instead]].
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* StraightForTheCommander: Before the battle with the king, Cyrus, who knows where the king is, orders Clearchus to use this strategy. Cleachus, unfortunately, refuses. And then the intent of such a strategy [[DecapitatedArmy ends up happening to Cyrus instead]].
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* YouAreInCommandNow: Tissaphernes' betrayal kills the Ten Thousand's officers, leading them to have to elect new ones, Xenophon ending up as one of them.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: Tissaphernes' betrayal kills the Ten Thousand's officers, leading them to have to elect new ones, Xenophon ending up as one of them.their general.
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* BadassArmy: The Ten Thousand.
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* BadassArmy: The Ten Thousand. The sudden capture and execution of their officers only led to some panic until [[SneezeOfDoom a sneeze occurred to one man]] (a sneeze was seen as a sign of the gods) which emboldened them to re-organize and march all the way back to Greece. Lacking the clothing for winter in Armenia proves to be more lethal to them than whatever battles they got up to in the season.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The Ten Thousand once attack a wooden fortress on a hill surrounded by a forest to plunder it for food. The Ten Thousand expedited their encirclement by having small groups of men appear before the fortress to bait them into hurling the stones they used for ammunition at them before jumping back to take cover back in the forest. After the defenders were about out of ammunition, the Ten Thousand simply stormed the fortress and the garrison barely put up a fight back, with the inhabitants being said to have thrown their children and then themselves over the walls to their deaths.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The Ten Thousand once attack a wooden fortress on a hill surrounded by a forest to plunder it for food. The Ten Thousand expedited their encirclement by having small groups of men appear before the fortress to bait them into hurling the stones they used for ammunition at them before jumping back to take cover back in the forest. After the defenders were about out of ammunition, the Ten Thousand simply stormed the fortress and the garrison barely put up a fight back, with the inhabitants being said to have thrown their children and then themselves over the walls to their deaths.
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* DecapitatedArmy: Twice. First, Cyrus, the prince who hired the Greeks is dead. Next, Greek officers who went over to negotiate with the Persians are killed.
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* DecapitatedArmy: Twice. First, Cyrus, the prince who hired the Greeks is dead. Next, the Greek officers who went over to negotiate with the Persians are killed.then captured and killed by them.
* EasyLogistics: [[AvertedTrope Absolutely not]], of course. The Ten Thousand managing to keep themselves fed
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* FrontlineGeneral: All over the place, including both Cyrus and the King of Persia. Cyrus' example [[DecapitatedArmy led to a fairly foreseeable conclusion to his story.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: Cyrus' army, and particularly the Ten Thousand, would unquestionably have bested Artaxerxes' at Cunaxa. However, Cyrus was killed in the fight, making the whole exercise pointless. As a result, most of his army fled the field for fear of being discovered by the king--except for the Greeks, who didn't hear of Cyrus' death and still stood firm, bringing the battle to a draw. As a result, they get singled out for bad treatment at the hands of the Shah.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Cyrus' army, and particularly the Ten Thousand, would unquestionably have bested Artaxerxes' at Cunaxa. However, Cyrus was killed in the fight, fight while he had the army to supplant Persia's ruler, making the whole exercise pointless. As a result, most of his army fled the field for fear of being discovered by the king--except for the Greeks, who didn't hear of Cyrus' death and still stood firm, bringing the battle to a draw. As a result, they get singled out for bad treatment at the hands of the Shah.
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* StraightForTheCommander: Before the battle with the king, Cyrus, who knows where the king is, orders Clearchus to use this strategy. Cleachus, unfortunately, refuses.
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* StraightForTheCommander: Before the battle with the king, Cyrus, who knows where the king is, orders Clearchus to use this strategy. Cleachus, unfortunately, refuses. And then the intent of such a strategy [[DecapitatedArmy ends up happening to Cyrus instead]].
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* YouAreInCommandNow: Tissaphernes' betrayal kills the Ten Thousand's officers, leading them to have to elect new ones, Xenophon ending up as one of them.
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* AssholeVictim: By modern standards, the Persians' prolonged torture of Menon is their most horrific act, but right before we learn about it Xenophon establishes Menon as such a horrible person that it doesn't seem so bad.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: By modern standards, the Persians' prolonged torture of Menon is their most horrific act, but right before we learn about it Xenophon establishes Menon as such a horrible person that it doesn't seem so bad.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Clearchus's soldiers see him as this, at least when they're in combat and his harshness is directed on the enemy. Notably, as soon as they get out of combat RealityEnsues and many men desert him for a less strict general.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Clearchus's soldiers see him as this, at least when they're in combat and his harshness is directed on the enemy. Notably, as soon as they get out of combat RealityEnsues and many men desert him for a less strict general.
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The ''Anabasis'' ([[IHaveManyNames also called]] ''The Anabasis of Cyrus'', ''The March Up Country'', ''The March of the Ten Thousand'', and ''The Persian Expedition'') is a work by the [[AncientGreece ancient Greek]] writer Creator/{{Xenophon}}. It details the journey of 10,000 Greek mercenaries in the army of Cyrus the Younger as he seeks to overthrow his older brother, the King of Persia Artaxerxes II. They fight Artaxerxes' army at Cunaxa, defeating it, and all seems well...
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The ''Anabasis'' ([[IHaveManyNames also called]] ''The Anabasis of Cyrus'', ''The March Up Country'', ''The March of the Ten Thousand'', and ''The Persian Expedition'') is a work by the [[AncientGreece [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece ancient Greek]] writer Creator/{{Xenophon}}. It details the journey of 10,000 Greek mercenaries in the army of Cyrus the Younger as he seeks to overthrow his older brother, the King of Persia Artaxerxes II. They fight Artaxerxes' army at Cunaxa, defeating it, and all seems well...
