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A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way. [1] It is distinct from simple prisoner transport via foot march.
Croesus was born in 620 BC to the king Alyattes of Lydia and one of his queens, a Carian noblewoman whose name is still unknown. Croesus had at least one full sister, Aryenis, as well as a half-brother named Pantaleon, born from a Ionian wife of Alyattes. [8] [9]
In late March 1945, the SS sent 24,500 women prisoners from Ravensbrück concentration camp on death march to the north, to prevent leaving live witnesses in the camp when the Soviet Red Army would arrive, as was likely to happen soon. The survivors of this march were liberated on 30 April 1945, by a Soviet scout unit.
Carolean Death March; Battle of Chustenahlah; Circassian genocide; D. Dangrek genocide; Battle of Dunbar (1650) Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) E.
The tradition that a torturous death by combing with a knaphos was inflicted by Croesus was recorded by Herodotus. [2] Later mentions [citation needed] from the Middle East and Asia Minor often associate combing with heroic martyrdom for the sake of belief in the Abrahamic God and loyalty to one's Jewish, Christian, or Muslim faith.
Despite the arrival of winter, Cyrus continued his march on Sardis. [11] The dispersal of Croesus' army exposed Lydia to the unexpected winter campaign of Cyrus, who almost immediately followed Croesus back to Sardis. [11] The rival kings fought again at the Battle of Thymbra, before Sardis, which ended in a decisive victory for Cyrus the Great ...
After the death of Cyrus, Croesus continued to serve as a royal adviser to Persian king Cambyses II. Herodotus states that the Egyptians place Croesus in the entourage of Cambyses II during the Egyptian campaign (after 525). Cambyses II is even related to have threatened to kill Croesus for bad advice, the latter surviving courtesy of the ...
Croesus crossed the Halys and met Cyrus at Pteria in Cappadocia, but after a drawn-out battle against superior forces in which neither side obtained the victory, Croesus resolved to fall back for the winter, summon new allies and renew the war with reinforcements the next spring. [5] In the interim, he disbanded his army and returned to Sardis.