How Do We Keep Our Ship Together When It's Dark All the Time?

Xenophon led an army deep in enemy territory, all the way back to greece. The parallel lived like shackleton in endurance, right? But it's opposed to shackleton, who was the frozen tundra of antarctica. This was how do i take an army that i was not the original leader of, and how do i retreat from persia keeping the army together and keeping the morale together? Is another kind of amazing leadership story, where the adversity, of course, was enemy territory,.