King Xerxes crossing the Hellespont on pontoon bridges circa 480 BC. Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges were constructed in 480 BC during the second Persian invasion of Greece upon the order of Xerxes I of Persia for the purpose of Xerxes’ army to traverse the Hellespont (the preset day Dardanelles) from Asia into Thrace, then also controlled by Persia, Image sourced from Cassell's Illustrated Universal History (1893).

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