[DS] 10,000 Xenophon's Anabasis and Czech Legion

From: "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>

> From: "Brian Burger" <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>

Also see: Henry Baerlein, The March of the Seventy Thousand D558 B3 Ernest
Dupuy, Perish by the Sword: the Czechoslovakian Anabasis and Our
Supporting Campaigns in North Russia and Siberia 1918-1920

> From http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/czech-legions.html
In an unusually shrewd move, the Russians realized that many Czechs didn't
like being Austro-Hungarian, so they organized their Czech prisoners of
war
into a unit, called the Czech legion, to fight Austria-Hungary, with
promises of securing independence when they won. (I've not been able to find
out if Slovaks were included in this.) It started out with about 600 men:
and then there was the Revolution, and the peace of Brest-Litovsk, and
no way to head west. So the Czech legion (by now a few thousand strong)
decided to go east. By the time they reached Siberia and the Allies, there
were sixty thousand of them. The Whites weren't too happy about them, but the

Alan and Carmel Brain schrieb:
> Also see:

Interesting links, thanks.

> Picture of a Czech Legion Armoured train "somewhere in

Would that be allowed under present DSII capacity rules?
;-)

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