In his "Anabasis" this Greek historian & soldier recounted an attack on Persia in the 5th century B.C.
[DOC] [TLE] Xenophon (430354 BC)  Bharat Dahal [PAR] Despite his birth-association with Athens, Xenophon affiliated himself with Sparta 
for ... about the history of his own times, the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC, ... 
army composed of native Persian soldiers, but also a large number of Greeks.