The Hellespont known today as the Dardanelles is a strait connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara in present-day Turkey.

Pontoon bridge persia. The third battle for Kut was over and the 4 Turk divisions in defence paid a heavy cost in lives reducing their numbers to some 5000 men Evans 1930. Pontoon Bridge - 480 BC A major obstacle in the path f the Persian King Xerxes army was the Hellespont a waterway at the head of the Aegean that was nearly a mile wide at its narrowest and separated Asia Minor from Europe. Actually Xerxes needed to build two pontoon bridges because the first one was destroyed by a storms roiling waters.

The Persian army under the rule of King Xerxes during the Persian invasion of Greece in 480BC. Xerxes Pontoon Bridge The earliest written record of bridge construction described by Herodotus was a bridge built across the Euphrates River around 600 BC. The Persian army can build a pontoon bridge there 51.

But it was a formidable geographical and symbolic barrier between Asia and Europe. The best examples of pontoon bridges are those of Xerxes which were built across the Hellespont during the Persian invasion of Greece. According to Herodotus the bridge was made of 676 ships stationed in two parallel rows with their keels in the direction of the current.

Soldier and mount Persian Front Mesopotamia 191718. 3 He described a bridge built by Persian ruler Xerxes to cross the Hellespont now the Dardanelles. Xerxes Pontoon Bridges is a ship bridge and wooden bridge that was completed in 480 Before Christ.

In response Xerxes. When Xerxes engineers bridged it the consequences were seismic. Fuel and ammunition dump set ablaze by retreating Turkish forces Mesopotomia 1918.

This first pontoon bridge was used to allow the Persian army to cross the strait of Dardanelles in Turkey. So it seemed in 480 BC when the Persians under Xerxes invaded Greece. This bridge consisted of two parallel pontoon bridges each made up of 314 and 360 boats which were tied to the riverbank and T.