A History Of Death-Marches

Bataan is the clear favorite among them. They may be evoked with propriety by anyone who has already walked nine blocks or more (this allowance is more generous where children and senior citizens are concerned). The death-march is chiefly applied by one civilization to another. There are always survivors at the end of a death-march. The first death march is reputed by Pliny the Elder to have begun in Syracuse in or around 530 BC, and to have tromped back and forth to the eastern shore for the next four months. The “Trail of Tears" is generally considered to have been a death-march, though it is often mistaken for a trail in the recreational sense.