Persian Invasion of 480 BC - articles

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The story says 7 days to cross a bridge, and I believe it! Prove it wrong!

He actually says just over seven days. Seven is a conventional figure and I treat it as something somebody made up and Herodotus took as true.

That's so unfair!

We are running circles in this discussion. I have already made my basic points time after time, but people keeps confusing field armies with global armies

Nah, we're past that now. I'm challenging you to prove how your logistics theories, if true, would prevent 1,700,000 persians from walking into Athens. You have not done so. Dig deeper.

BTW I would like to see in people that keep talking about Napoleon´s example some actual knowledge of Napoleonic campaigns.

What's there to know? He took 691,000 men from Poland to Moscow. I think we can all agree on that.

I and Aryaman2 have posted a large amount of evidence that an army of over a few hundred thousand would be utterly impractical.

Hmm, impractical you say. Xerxes entire campaign was impractical. I think the important question is whether this army is *possible* so we can debunk the story or not. Whatever the number, this campaign was not the work of a scientific mind. Victory is practical. Anything less than victory in a premeditated invasion has to come from some lack of forethought. Perhaps the army was too big?