Rebel yells, greeks, and independence day

Actually, although the Cherokee and most Okies were Rebs (there was even a Conferderate General who was a Cherokee)...., I come from Osage County, and the Osage were anti slavery and supported the north...

Here is the rebel yell: Alas, you have to buy the $27 dollar book to get it free...but I'm sure someone will place it on the internet...

1.Specially recorded for this promotion. An audio CD of the only recording by a living Confederate veteran giving the famous rebel yell technologically multiplied in the laboratories of Printpoint Inc. in New York, to emulate a Confederate company of troops advancing on a Union line. The original recording by WBT, Charlotte, NC in the early Twentieth Century featured Pvt. Thomas N. Alexander of the 37th North Carolina Regt.. Pvt. Alexander made the only known recording of this famous battle yell by an authentic Confederate soldier. This simulation of a company’s battle charge is the only recording of its kind in the world today. Sponsored by the History Publishing Company, LLc. Value: Priceless

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however, I wonder about the ones who write up the books, because as I scroll down I read:
12.For this promotion. The Anabasis by Xenephon. The first “war correspondent,” sets the pattern for war correspondents in later years including the Special Correspondents of the Civil War. Xenephon marched with the Spartan army to Persia to aid Cyrus in his quest to gain the throne in 400 B.C. The Anabasis is the classic account of that military campaign. The e-book. Value: $29.00

HELLO!!

It wasn't a Spartan Army...it was a bunch of mercenaries, and Xenophon was an Athenian who went along for the fun of it...and it wasn't the great Cyrus, but Cyrus the Younger trying to steal back the thone from his brother...and the book wasn't about the military campaign, except in the first chapters.

You see, the first battle was in Babylon, and Cyrus younger got killed.
This stranded the mercenaries...who were up to be hired by the winners.

So when the Persians asked their officers to come in and parlay without taking their arms, the officers went...and promptly got killed.
Then the Persians told the lower soldiers to hand in their arms...expecting them to be demoralized and leaderless.

But the Greeks figured they'd be killed. So instead of giving up their arms, they promptly voted in new officers, including Xenophon, and told the Persians: Screw you, we're going home...and if you want our swords you can take them from our cold dead hands...

And so the Greeks marched home...1000 miles, and most of them actually survived the trip...

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LINK to book

Hmm...makes you wonder if Xenophon was from Texas...or Sweeden...