Khalid, on returning from Arabia, receives intelligence…
November 633 CE
Khalid, on returning from Arabia, receives intelligence entailing a concentration of a large Persian army and Christian Arab auxiliaries.
These forces are based in four different camps in the Euphrates region at Hanafiz, Zumail, Saniyy and the largest being at Muzayyah.
Khalid avoids a pitched battle with a large united Persian force and decided to attack and destroy each of the camps in separate night attacks from three sides.
He divides his army in three units, and attacks the Persian forces in coordinated assaults from three different directions during the night, starting with the Battle of Muzayyah, then the Battle of Saniyy, and finally the Battle of Zumail in November 633.
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Arab people
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Persian people
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Zoroastrians
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Jews
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Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
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Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
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Christianity, Chalcedonian
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Ghassan, Kingdom of
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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
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Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
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Islam
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