The Battle of the Euphrates

Crassus's impatience would prove to be his undoing and lead him to make a disastrous strategic decision right at the outset. Armenia, which Pompey had secured peaceful relationships with the decade before, agreed to help Crassus and his quest to peel off territory from the Parthians. The Roman army marched day after day through the sweltering desert heat. Morale was low and the troops grumbled that Crassus had no idea what he was doing, no idea where he was going and that he was going to get them all killed. On all three fronts they were exactly correct.