He was forced to take command when Clearchus of Sparta and his officers were treacherously killed during peace negotiations by the Great King Artaxerxes II, who had just defeated and killed its leader, the Younger Cyrus, in the Battle of (*) Cumaxa, as he recounts in his Cyropaedia.
He succeeded in establishing Seuthes II as the King of Thrace by force. He was forced to take command when Clearchus of Sparta and his officers were treacherously killed during peace negotiations by the Great King Artaxerxes II, who had just defeated and killed its leader, the Younger Cyrus, in the Battle of (*) Cumaxa, as he recounts in his Cyropaedia. His Memorabilia Sokratika are the only 5 extant Socratic dialogues not written by Plato, and his Hellenika is the most reliable chronicle of Greek history from 411 to 364; it continues Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. For 10 points identify this Greek general and historian, best-known for leading the mercenary army of the Ten Thousand back home, as recorded in his Anabasis or The March Upcountry.
He succeeded in establishing Seuthes II as the King of Thrace by force.
{Xenophon}