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Route and Xenophon
Route of Cyrus the Younger, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand ( Greek ) | Ten Thousand mercenaries
Route of Cyrus the Younger, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand ( Greek ) | Ten Thousand.
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand.

Route and Ten
Just north of this, the route crosses the Ten Mile River and then enters a complicated five-way intersection with US 1 and Route 1A.
The freeway passes to the west of Belleville Pond and begins to parallel the alignment of Route 102 ( Ten Rod Road ) near the community of Lafayette.
Ten miles west of PA 487, the amount of development along PA 61 increases exponentially, transitioning from rural hills and land east of the Upper Augusta Township community of Oaklyn to densely-packed villages only one mile to the west in Hamilton, where PA 61 meets Pennsylvania Route 890.

Route and Thousand
CA Route 23 connects to the 101 near downtown Thousand Oaks, runs north toward Moorpark and Simi Valley, and essentially divides the city in two.
State Route 23 is in the process of being expanded to a six-lane highway, U. S. Route 101 is being upgraded, The Oaks Shopping Center is being expanded by the Macerich Company, and the city has plans to renovate the old Downtown, near the Civic Arts Plaza on Thousand Oaks Blvd.
U. S. Route 30 passes through Buhl, along the scenic Thousand Springs Scenic Byway from Twin Falls to Bliss.
Depauville is a site for hunting and fishing as the salmon spawn and migration includes the Chaumont River from Lake Ontario and access to the Thousand Islands Region is a 10-minute drive northbound on State Route 12.
The culturally significant Thousand Steps of the Standing Stone Trail are located in the Jacks Narrows about 2 miles west of the town along U. S. Route 22.
During its steep and winding path through the Santa Monica Mountains as an increasingly windy canyon road until its intersection with Potrero Road, Route 23 becomes Westlake Boulevard, where it departs Los Angeles County for Ventura County and heads roughly two miles northeast through the Westlake section of Thousand Oaks, a developed residential community.
It starts in Thousand Oaks, splitting off from the concurrency with Route 101 and heading north, with three lanes in both directions.
Its northern terminus is at Route 6 west of Kirksville ; its southern terminus is at Thousand Hills State Park.
Route 157 begins at the marina on Forrest Lake in Thousand Hills State Park in Adair County, heading north as a two-lane undivided road.

Route and Greek
Glendower, now known as Glendower State Memorial or Glendower Mansion, is an historic Greek Revival style house located at 105 Cincinnati Avenue, U. S. Route 42, Cincinnati Avenue, in Lebanon, Ohio.
In order to control the Incense Route from the Nabatean a Greek military expedition was undertaken, without success, by Antigonus Cyclops, one of Alexander of Macedonia's generals.
The sea trade from the southern end of the Kamboja – Dvaravati Route to the west is documented in Greek, Buddhist and Jain records:

Route and |
Looking south on U. S. Route 395 in Nevada | US 395, just south of U. S. Route 50 in Nevada | US 50 near Carson City
The entrance of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, which is part of Route 1 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 1, in Hung Hom, Kowloon
The Eastern Harbour Tunnel is the second under-water tunnel across Victoria Harbour, and is part of Route 2 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 2.
Tsing Ma Bridge, part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8, is List of longest suspension bridges | the world's longest rail and road suspension bridge s.
Kap Shui Mun Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge connecting Ma Wan and Lantau Island, and is also part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8.
The Sabine just south of U. S. Route 80 near Big Sandy, Texas | Big Sandy, Texas
File: Grange_de_Laviau_Gruyères_Nov_2011. jpg | Grange du Laviau at Route de Saussivue 73 A
Unlined section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, just south of Manzanar near U. S. Route 395 ( California ) | U. S. Route 395.
The Central Route in Genoa, Nevada | Nevada
Roadside sign at the southern end of the Canning Stock Route, near Wiluna, Western Australia | Wiluna
The Lend-Lease Memorial in Fairbanks, Alaska | Fairbanks, Alaska commemorates the shipment of U. S. aircraft to the Soviet Union along the Northwest Staging Route.
Route map for Vietnam's National Route 1A ( Vietnam ) | National Route 1A.

Xenophon and Ten
In the days of the Greek historians Ctesias and Herodotus, 400 BC, Nineveh had become a thing of the past ; and when Xenophon the historian passed the place in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand the very memory of its name had been lost.
* The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, edited by Robin Lane Fox.
Xenophon described the odd behavior of Greek soldiers after having consumed honey in a village surrounded by Rhododendron ponticum during the march of the Ten Thousand in 401 BC.
When Xenophon and the Ten Thousand mercenaries were fighting their way out of Persia, the first Greek city they reached was Trebizond ( Xenophon, Anabasis, 5. 5. 10 ).
* In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries ( the " Ten Thousand ") in 401 BC to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
Xenophon played an instrumental role in encouraging " The Ten Thousand " Greek army to march north to the Black Sea in an epic fighting retreat.
Their eventual success, the march of the Ten Thousand, was recorded by Xenophon in his Anabasis.
The field is therefore open for him to do for the Macedonian king what Pindar had done for the Deinomenid tyrants and Xenophon for the march of the Ten Thousand ".
The Greek general Xenophon records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food supplies as they withdrew before the advance of the Ten Thousand.
Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
While the journey of Cyrus himself is indeed an anabasis from Ionia on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea to the interior of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, most of Xenophon's narrative is taken up with the return march of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand from the interior of Babylon to the coast of the Black Sea.
Among Haydon's other pictures were: Eucles and Punch ( 1829 ); Napoleon at St Helena, for Sir Robert Peel ; Xenophon, on his Retreat with the ' Ten Thousand ,' first seeing the Sea ; and Waiting for the Times, purchased by the Marquis of Stafford ( all 1831 ); and Falstaff and Achilles playing the Lyre ( 1832 ).
This was amply illustrated later on by the Ten Thousand and Xenophon.
** Xenophon, on his Retreat with the Ten Thousand, first seeing the Sea, painting by Benjamin Haydon
Xenophon was away at the time of the events, involved in the events of the march of the Ten Thousand.
According to Xenophon, the Ten Thousand were composed of:
When the Ten Thousand started their journey in 401 BC, Xenophon tells us that they numbered around 10, 400.

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