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Ben Kane
The Forgotten Legion
(The Forgotten Legion Chronicles – 1)
The Forgotten Legion
BEN KANE
Crassus 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, Fasti
In 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 ...

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