Question: The returning soldiers from what army were exposed to rice while on expedition in Asia?
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Rice was known to the Classical world, being imported from Egypt, and perhaps west Asia.
It was known to Greece by returning soldiers from Alexander the Great's military expedition to Asia.
Large deposits of rice from the first century A.D. have been found in Roman camps in Germany.
The Moors brought Asiatic rice to the Iberian Peninsula in the 10th century.
Records indicate it was grown in Valencia and Majorca.
In Majorca, rice cultivation seems to have stopped after the Christian conquest, although historians are not certain.
Muslims also brought rice to Sicily, where it was an important crop long before it is noted in the plain of Pisa (1468) or in the Lombard plain (1475), where its cultivation was promoted by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and demonstrated in his model farms.
After the 15th century, rice spread throughout Italy and then France, later propagating to all the continents during the age of European exploration.
In European Russia, a short-grain, starchy rice similar to the Italian varieties, has been grown in the Krasnodar Krai, and known in Russia as "Kuban Rice" or "Krasnodar Rice".
In the Russian Far East several "japonica" cultivars are grown in Primorye around the Khanka lake.
Increasing scale of rice production in the region has recently brought criticism towards growers' alleged bad practices in regards to the environment.
After Hands' death, the army launched an ""aggressive campaign"" to catch those responsible.
Posses also formed and assisted the army in the search.
There were only two important encounters during the campaign.
The first was on May 8, 1896, when a combined scouting expedition under Second Lieutenant Nathan King Averill, 7th Cavalry, found the renegades encamped in the Peloncillo Mountains, near Lang's Ranch, southwest of Cloverdale, New Mexico.
However, other accounts say the skirmish occurred in the Guadalupe Mountains of Mexico, about fifty miles south of the border.
Averill reported that his men killed or wounded one Apache man and wounded a woman while the rest fled.
One of the renegades fired a few shots from behind a tree before getting away.
The Americans also captured a little girl who was left behind at the camp.
She was later taken in by a member of the expedition, John Horton Slaughter, who claimed that he was the one who killed the renegade and that the man he shot was the Apache Kid.
Two or three days after that, Captain James M. Bell, 7th Cavalry, sent Lieutenant Sedgwick Rice out from Fort Grant, Arizona with three Apache Scouts and four soldiers.
They first headed for San Simon Station, a town in San Simon Valley, and then south through the Peloncillos.
On the next day, May 12, the Apache scouts detected the renegades' trail and determined that it was made by five horses, one of which had iron horseshoes and the other four were ""shod with rawhide.""
The scouts said that by reading the trail they could tell that two of the horses were ridden by woman and that only one had a man on its back.
It was getting dark by that time so Lieutenant Rice decided to make camp for the night.
Early the next morning, on May 13, Rice and his men continued following the trail south until, on May 14, it turned east towards the Animas Valley of New Mexico.
Around this time, Rice met some of Second Lieutenant Averill's men, who were still scouting in the area.
It was then decided that Rice would join Averill at his camp, in Guadalupe Canyon, to see Lieutenant Edwin C. Bullock, who was their superior.
Before reaching the camp, Averill himself rode up to Rice and told him that the renegades had crossed the international border about three miles west of Cloverdale.
According to Britt Wilson, ""Guadalupe Canyon a natural, protected pass leading into Mexico from Arizona Territory, [and had been used by the Apaches for a long time as an escape route.""
During Geronimo's War, in June 1885, a small battle was fought there when Chiricahuas attacked an army redoubt and a few years before that it was the site of the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre, in which Mexican policemen killed "Old Man" Clanton and his gang of cattle rustlers.
Rice believed that the renegades were still in the area so, on the next day, May 15, he and Averill left camp and proceeded down the trail with twelve enlisted men, ten Apache scouts and four civilians, including John Slaughter and his ranch foreman, Jesse Fisher.
The expedition did not catch up with the hostiles that day but that night, when the soldiers were making camp, Rice sent the Apache scouts ahead of his little column to see if they could locate the enemy camp.
Just as Rice hoped, on the morning of May 16, the scouts found the hostiles' camp somewhere in the canyon.
In May 1896, the United States Army could not legally enter Mexican territory but the newspapers concluded that the attack did take place south of the border.
Adjutant General George D. Ruggles, in Washington, D.C., requested information from Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner about the exact location of the encounter but Britt Wilson says that ""Sumner's seemingly equivocal response neither affirmed nor denied that the fight took place in Mexico.
""The scouts sent two men back to Rice's camp to inform him of the enemy's presence.
Later Rice said that because the renegades were ""in an exceedingly difficult position in a ledge of rock, or rather a pinnacle, about halfway up a very steep mountain,"" he came up with a plan to surround the hostiles stealthy and cut off any possible escape routes leading down the mountainside.
This would be difficult though, the May 22 issue of the "Tombstone Prospector" described Guadalupe Canyon as being one of ""precipitable character... the perpendicular or overhanging rocks and abrupt declivities making it an almost impossibility to get closer than long range shot.""
Second Lieutenant Averill took with him twelve enlisted men, three Apache scouts, and the four man posse, to move north of the hostiles' camp.
From there Averill left one scout and the four civilians to cover the northern side while he, the enlisted men, and two other scouts split up to cover the eastern and the western sides.
Lieutenant Rice was left to make the attack with one soldier and the seven remaining scouts.
Moving into position took at least five hours but by 4:00 am, on May 17, Rice was ""only 250 yards above the Apache camp"" and in a place that had a ""commanding view"" of the natives.
Rice wanted to wait until sunrise to begin the attack so he and his men would have to wait at least three more hours.
By 6:00 am, the Apache women in camp ""began moving about"", presenting ""easy targets"" for the Americans and the scouts.
Rice forbid his men from attacking the women, unless in self defense, because the scouts told him that the women would likely surrender if the warriors were killed.
At about 7:00 am, just before sunrise, the Apache man Adelnietze appeared.
Adelnietze was with Geronimo's band of renegades ten years before, but, instead of surrendering at Skeleton Canyon, he continued to live as a nomad with his family.
Rice later reported that Adelnietze was ""responding to an alarm call"" because one of the women had seen the soldiers at the base of the mountainside.
Averill then decided to move closer to the hostiles.
Britt Wilson says that ""The lieutenant sent a sergeant and two other soldiers to one canyon, and he took the other men behind a peak that he assumed lay on the back side of the Apache camp.""
When they were in position, Averill noticed a person standing atop a ""high pinnacle"" on the next ridge over, one of the scouts said that the person was an Apache women.
Averill looked through his field glasses and saw what he thought was Rice so he moved his men to the next ridge and ordered them to make sure they didn't open fire.
However, Lieutenant Rice and his men had been watching Adelnietze for a while so the order to open fire was given.
Adelnietze was hit by one of the first bullets but he was able to run down the mountainside ""through a narrow opening in the rocks,"" followed by at least one of the women.
The soldiers also fired on Massai, who, by that time, was awake and he ""made a hasty retreat from the camp, as the troopers bullets ricocheted harmlessly off the rocks that provided him with cover.""
Though Britt Wilson repeatedly refers to the second encounter as a "fight," nowhere in his account does it say that the Apaches actually returned fire.
Rice thought that the fleeing renegades would run straight into Averill's command but he didn't know that Averill had split up with the posse and had spread his men out in a bad way.
Averill later blamed his scouts for being unwilling to move any closer to the hostiles' camp.
He quoted one as saying; ""Camp right here, we sit down, Chericahuas hear us….""
Averill later said that Curley ""moved very slowly and finally refused to go any further, either through fear for himself or through fear of alarming the renegades.""
Curley responded; ""Just by myself, without the help of another scout, it was slow trailing.
They [the army ought to have sent two or three scouts along with me to help.""
When the shooting started, Averill had just finished hiking down to the bottom of Guadalupe Canyon.
Wilson says that ""The shots chased the three Apache women directly toward Averill,"" but Curley scared them off by firing ""into the air"".
Curley's account was a little different than Averill's.
Curley said that as the women were running towards him he tried to point them out to Averill but he could not see.
Therefore, Curley figured he should open fire to not only alarm Averill of the renegades but to complete his objective by stopping the enemy from fleeing.
No matter which account is true, the women sought shelter from the bullets behind a series of rock formations but they later got away.
In Averill's official report, he blames Curley for failing to get him into the right position and for ""warning"" the renegades by opening fire on them.
Averill also ""expressed dissatisfaction"" for the Apache scout he left with John Slaughter and the other three civilians.
When Lieutenant Rice realized that the Apache men were escaping he could only chase after one so he followed Adelnietze's ""very bloody trail.""
Adelnietze escaped though and the pursuit was called off forty-eight hours later because the Apache scouts told Rice that the renegade would likely die from his wound.
Rice then went back to see Lieutenant Bullock, who ordered him to keep searching for Adelnietze's body and that of the Apache said to have been wounded on May 8.
The "Tombstone Prospector" later reported that both of the bodies were found and that much of Adelnietze's belongings were captured, including his 1873 Springfield rifle, ""with a shortened barrel,"" a bow, two horses, moccasins and leggings ""filled with blood.""
The scouts also found articles of clothing that belonged to the murdered Elizabeth Merill and her father.
All of Adelnietze's belongings were found at the camp, except the leggings, which were picked up from an area of ""ground was saturated with blood.""
Despite the fact that the renegades got away, General Nelson A.
Miles said; ""The major-general commanding the army appreciates very highly the skill, fortitude, and perseverance of the troops… and the success so far achieved….
First Lieutenant Sedgwick Rice and Second Lieutenant N.K.
Averill, Seventh Cavalry, and the non-commissioned officers, guides and Indian scouts under their command are highly commended.
""After May 17, there was only one other notable encounter between the United States Army and Apache renegades during the campaign.
On June 4, 1896, the Americans received permission from the Mexican government to pursue Apaches across the international border and shortly thereafter a small expedition was sent into Sonora.
On June 21, Lieutenant William Yates was leading the expedition through Pulpito Mountain, sixty miles south of the border, when he came across an Apache camp.
An immediate attack was ordered, which led to the capture of a five-year-old girl, a horse, and some camping equipment.
There was no fighting though and it was reported that four warriors, four women and one other child got away.
American newspapers claimed the Apache scouts that participated in the expedition had warned the renegades before the attack began, allowing the majority time to escape. 
Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
Though Cyrus' mixed army fought to a tactical victory at Cunaxa in Babylon (401 BC), Cyrus himself was killed in the battle, rendering the actions of the Greeks irrelevant and the expedition a failure.
Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.
Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-filled mountain passes towards the Black Sea and the comparative security of its Greek shoreline cities.
Now abandoned in northern Mesopotamia, without supplies other than what they could obtain by force or diplomacy, the 10,000 had to fight their way northwards through Corduene and Armenia, making ad hoc decisions about their leadership, tactics, provender and destiny, while the King's army and hostile natives constantly barred their way and attacked their flanks.
Ultimately this "marching republic" managed to reach the shores of the Black Sea at Trabzon (Trebizond), a destination they greeted with their famous cry of joyous exultation on the mountain of Theches (now Madur) in Surmene : ""thálatta, thálatta"", "the sea, the sea!
"The sea" meant that they were at last among Greek cities, but it was not the end of their journey, which included a period fighting for Seuthes II of Thrace, and ended with their recruitment into the army of the Spartan general Thibron.
Xenophon related this story in Anabasis in a simple and direct manner.
The Greek term "anabasis" referred to an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country.
The term "katabasis" referred to a trip from the interior to the coast.
While the journey of Cyrus himself is indeed an anabasis from Ionia on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea to the interior of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, most of Xenophon's narrative is taken up with the return march of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand from the interior of Babylon to the coast of the Black Sea.
Socrates makes a cameo appearance when Xenophon asks whether he ought to accompany the expedition.
The short episode demonstrates the reverence of Socrates for the Oracle of Delphi.
Xenophon's account of the exploit resounded through Greece, where, two generations later, some surmise, it may have inspired Philip of Macedon to believe that a lean and disciplined Hellene army might be relied upon to defeat a Persian army many times its size.
Besides military history, the "Anabasis" has found use as a tool for the teaching of classical philosophy; the principles of leadership and government exhibited by the army can be seen as exemplifying Socratic philosophy. 
Darius's European expedition was a major event in his reign, which began with the invasion of Thrace, after which he left Megabyzus to conquer Thrace, returning to Sardis to spend the winter.
Before returning, Darius also conquered many cities of the northern Aegean, while Macedonia submitted voluntarily.
The Greeks living in Asia Minor and some of the Greek islands had submitted to Persian rule by 510 BCE.
Nonetheless, there were certain Greeks who were pro-Persian, such as the medizing Greeks, which were largely grouped at Athens.
This improved Greek-Persian relations as Darius opened his court and treasuries to the Greeks who wanted to serve him.
These Greeks served as soldiers, artisans, statesmen and mariners for Darius; however, Greek fear of the strength of Darius's kingdom became strong and the constant interference by the Greeks in Ionia and Lydia were all stepping stones in the conflict that was yet to come between Persia and Greece.
When Aristagoras organized the Ionian revolt, Eretria and Athens supported him by sending ships and troops to Ionia and burning Sardis.
Persian military and naval operations to quell the revolt ended in the Persian reoccupation of Ionian and Greek islands; however, anti-Persian parties gained more power in Athens, and pro-Persian aristocrats were exiled from Athens and Sparta.
Darius responded by sending troops led by his son-in-law across the Hellespont; however, a violent storm and harassment by Thracians forced the troops to return to Persia.
Seeking revenge on Athens and Eretria, Darius assembled another army of 20,000 men under his Admiral, Datis, and his nephew Artaphernes, who met success when he captured Eretria and advanced to Marathon.
In 490 BCE, at the Battle of Marathon, the Persian army was defeated by a heavily armed Athenian army, with 9,000 men who were supported by 600 Plataeans, 1,000 soldiers from each of eleven Greek city-states (11,000 men in total) and 10,000 lightly armed soldiers led by Miltiades.
The defeat at Marathon marked the end of the first Persian invasion of Greece.
Darius began preparations for a second force which he would command, instead of his generals; however, before the preparations were complete, Darius died, thus leaving the task to his son Xerxes. 
Because of his late appointment and start, Fisk returned to Minnesota to find that many of the emigrants had tired of waiting for him and had departed in a separate group.
Nonetheless, he set out with the remainder (ignoring the route he had been ordered to take) and reached Fort Rice on the Missouri River.
There, Fisk asked for and obtained an army escort, 47 soldiers of Company A, Dakota Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Smith.
The enlarged party, including 200 emigrants and 88 wagons, set out from the fort on August 23.
On September 2, one wagon overturned.
Nine soldiers and two other wagons remained at the scene while repairs were made; the rest of the wagon train proceeded on.
The small isolated group was found and attacked by Sitting Bull and about 100 Hunkpapa Sioux.
In the fighting, Sitting Bull was shot in the hip.
Hearing the gunfire, Fisk and about 50 men hurried back from the main body.
Scout Jefferson Dilts charged forward recklessly and shot as many as six Sioux before being killed by arrows.
Fisk and the others held off the Native Americans until sunset, then snuck back to the main group.
Ten soldiers, Dilts, and another civilian had been killed, while the Sioux had lost six.
The next day, the Sioux attacked again, forcing the expedition to corral their wagons.
They constructed sod walls for "Fort Dilts" and defended themselves against 400 attackers without further casualties.
They had access to a source of water, and there were ample supplies in their wagons.
After several unsuccessful attacks, the Sioux opened negotiations under a flag of truce via notes written by Fanny Kelly, a woman they had taken captive in July.
They offered her and safe passage in exchange for supplies.
Fisk bid "three horses, flour, sugar, and coffee for her, but the Lakotas wanted forty head of cattle and four wagons", and the trade was off.
(A few months later, Fanny Kelly was either released by Sitting Bull or, by her account, escaped; she later wrote a popular book of her experiences, "Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians", in 1871.
)On the night of September 5, Lieutenant Smith and 13 men rode to Fort Rice for reinforcements.
An annoyed Brigadier General Alfred Sully dispatched 900 men on September 18.
On September 20, the Fisk party was escorted back to the safety of Fort Rice, whereupon the expedition disbanded.
While Fisk was viewed favorably by civilians, to the military authorities, he had committed "gross military offenses" and was "too reckless and too ignorant to be trusted."
Fisk submitted his report to the Adjutant General on January 13, 1865, and returned to Washington in February with his wife and their child.
On May 22, with the war coming to an end and a new administration in office following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Fisk tendered his resignation from the army.
He was discharged on June 12.
When the Fisk family departed the city, they left behind an unpaid $850 hotel bill.