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In 401 BC an army of over 10,000 Greek mercenaries marched into the heart of the Persian Empire to support Cyrus the Younger who sought the throne from his brother King Artaxerxes II. At the Battle of Cunaxa near modern Baghdad the disciplined hoplites defeated their foes while Cyrus fell in combat. The Persian commanders then feigned a truce to lure and later execute the Greek generals, leaving the army leaderless and stranded. An Athenian named Xenophon rallied the soldiers, elected new leader