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Название книги: The Forgotten Legion
Автор(ы): Ben Kane
Жанр: Исторические приключения
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Forgotten-Legion-192512.html
The Forgotten LegionBEN KANECrassus at the Euphrate lost his eagles, his son and his soldiers, And was the last himself to perish.'Parthian, why do you rejoice?' said the goddess. 'You shall return the standards, While there shall be an avenger who shall take vengeance for the death of Crassus.'Ovid, FastiIn his Natural History narrative, Pliny the Elder described how Roman survivors of the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC were sent to Margiana.Situated in modern-day Turkmenistan, this area is more than fifteen hundred miles from where the men were taken captive. Used as border guards, the ten thousand legionaries would have journeyed farther east than most Romans in history.But their story does not end there.In 36 BC, the Chinese historian Ban Gu recorded that soldiers in the army of Jzh-jzh, a Hun warlord and ruler of a city on the Silk Road, fought in a 'fish-scale formation'. The term used to describe their formation is unique in Chinese literature and many historians assert that it refers t
Название книги: The Forgotten Legion
Автор(ы): Ben Kane
Жанр: Исторические приключения
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Forgotten-Legion-192512.html
The Forgotten LegionBEN KANECrassus at the Euphrate lost his eagles, his son and his soldiers, And was the last himself to perish.'Parthian, why do you rejoice?' said the goddess. 'You shall return the standards, While there shall be an avenger who shall take vengeance for the death of Crassus.'Ovid, FastiIn his Natural History narrative, Pliny the Elder described how Roman survivors of the battle of Carrhae in 53 BC were sent to Margiana.Situated in modern-day Turkmenistan, this area is more than fifteen hundred miles from where the men were taken captive. Used as border guards, the ten thousand legionaries would have journeyed farther east than most Romans in history.But their story does not end there.In 36 BC, the Chinese historian Ban Gu recorded that soldiers in the army of Jzh-jzh, a Hun warlord and ruler of a city on the Silk Road, fought in a 'fish-scale formation'. The term used to describe their formation is unique in Chinese literature and many historians assert that it refers t
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