Clearchus of Sparta, who takes refuge with…
401 BCE
Clearchus of Sparta, who takes refuge with Cyrus the Younger in 403 after his expulsion from Byzantium, recruits the Greek mercenary army called the Ten Thousand in support of Cyrus’s claim to the Persian throne.
The ostensible reason for the invasion is a punitive expedition against Persia.
Comprising about twenty thousand men, including nearly thirteen thousand Greek mercenaries, the expedition marches east in the spring of 401.