Sep 9

Farhad the 2nd drove out Alexander’s successors from Asian continent.

In the last month of the summer of 129 BC, and according to some historic reports, on September 9th, in a war with the Seleucids (Antioch in Anatolia and some Syrian cities), Farhad the 2nd (Phraates II), the Parthian king of Iran, drove out Alexander’s successors from Asian continent, forever, and made up for the defeat of Iran from Alexander’s army. In this war 17,000 Seleucids were killed and 12,700 were taken captive, and these captives were never freed.     The reason for Alexander’s victory over the Achaemenids was that in the first war the Achaemenid king, Darius the 3rd, mainly used foreign hired soldiers (mercenary, the soldiers for hire).     The lesson that the world took from this war was that in defensive wars only home land soldiers (soldiers enlisted) should be used, who know that their defeat is equal to the capture of their country by foreigners and so will resist till their last breath. From then onwards governments would use hired soldiers (mercenaries) only for attacking other lands (invasion) so that these soldiers are left free to plunder for booties. A mercenary motivated by money.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour