He came to an agreement with Odenathus who had just returned from his victorious Persian expedition.

As aide-de-camp to General John Jacob in 1857, he commanded a troop of cavalry in that year's Persian expedition.

Antiochus died at Babylon on his Persian expedition (164 BC), and Lysias assumed the office of regent during the minority of his son, who was yet a child.

King Erekle of Georgia tried on several occasions to free Tbilisi from Persian rule, but Tbilisi was burnt to the ground in 1795 by Shah Agha-Mohammad Khan during a punitive Persian expedition.

Several Roman emperors were interred here: Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Maximinus, and Julian the Apostate, who planned to move his capital here from Antioch if he returned from his Persian expedition.

This was all for the upcoming Persian expedition that Julian's predecessor and later Julian had planned.

Seleucus accompanied Julian in his Persian expedition in 363 in which Seleucus intended to compose a history of the expedition.

It is still unclear if this fact is connected to the Persian expedition led by Darius or to the Scythians followers of the Persian army during the retreat.

The provinces of Sindh and Panjab were said to be the richest satraps of the Persian Empire and contributed many soldiers to various Persian expeditions.

Before setting out on his Persian expedition, Alexander the Great defeated the Getae and razed one of their settlements.