Persian Invasion of 480 BC - articles

[Tarbicus]

Sources on 1st crusade numbers for reasons of comparizon?

Give me a chance, I only posted it today! I read it somewhere once, so I need to dig it out. 100,000 Peasant Army, 500,000 footmen, x-000 knights is what I remember off the top of my head.

If it makes you all feel more comfortable divide it by ten, but then you've still got probably less than what was fielded by just the Romans and their allies at Cannae, after their main armies were slaughtered beforehand by Hannibal over a millenia before the Crusades.