Conflict: Islamic Conquests
Combatants: Rashiduns vs. Sassanids
Location: Iraq
Outcome: Rashidun victory
After suffering a defeat at the Battle of the Bridge, reinforcements helped the Rashidun Arabs halt pursuit by the Sassanid Persians. The Persian leader, Mihran bin Badhan, was killed in the battle reputedly falling to an arrow from the bow of a slave.
Points of Interest:
In 637, Sa'd ibn abi-Waqqas led a new army of 30,000 Arabs into Persia and defeated a 50,000 man army at Qadisiya.
A few months after Buwaib, Sa'd ibn abi-Waqqas again defeated the Persians at Jalula.
____________________________________________________________________________________
Sources:
Dupuy, Trevor N., Johnson, Curt, & Bongard, David L. (1992). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: Castle Books (HarperCollins).
Dupuy, R. Ernest & Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: HarperCollins.
Eggenberger, David (1985). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Comments