Persepolis
the Greek translation of the lost name of the capital of ancient Persia, was situated on the Araxes river, PERSHING dian campaigns in Arizona and New Mexico. He was also named to command the Sioux Indian scouts in 1890- 1891 Sioux campaign in Dakota. His next appointment was as military instructor in the University of Nebraska, after which he was transferred to the 10th Cavalry in 1892, continuing his lectures, when in 1896 he gained distinction in the Cree campaign, and in 1898 in the Santiago campaign. He organized the bureau of insular affairs in Cuba, and next saw service in the Philippine Islands, bein active there at Mindanao in operations against the Moros. When the Russo- Japanese War broke out he went as United States military attaché to Japan, and was with the army of General Kuroki during the Manchurian rian campaign. He returned to the Philippines in 1906, as brigadier-general and governor of the A BAS-RELIEF AT PERSEPOLIS to the E. of the Medus river, in the plain of Merdusht, about 35 miles to the N. E. of Shiraz, on the road to Ispahan. A number of most remarkable ruins is all that now remains of Persepolis. Darius Hystaspes, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, and other Archæmenides, each in his turn contributed toward its aggrandizement.