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Originally Posted by phoenix80 I have been trying not to post in here but well there you go...
The largest army ever commanded by one was the Army of the Persian king Xerxes (800'000 men) that invaded Greece. |
Do you mean actually led into battle by one man? If so, that figure is beaten by several of the German and Soviet Army commanders during WW2, who being field commanders actually moved into the field of operations with their troops. The German Army Group Centre for example, personally commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock, contained well over a million men when it marched into the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941.
As a sidenote, I'm sceptical about the accuracy of details concerning ancient battles. IMO there is a degree of exaggeration when it comes to those details. We are talking about events that took place a long time ago, and in many cases the facts have been distorted and twisted through the ages.