Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . practice his uniform rule of treating withmarked generosity places or parties which helped his cause,with exemplary severity those who resisted or rebelled. Nordid all this tend merely to give him the aid he needed for hisinvasion of the Persian monarchy; it added abundant strengthto his home politics. For every city in Asia which acceptedAlexander accepted also the fact that Macedonia was reinforced
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . practice his uniform rule of treating withmarked generosity places or parties which helped his cause,with exemplary severity those who resisted or rebelled. Nordid all this tend merely to give him the aid he needed for hisinvasion of the Persian monarchy; it added abundant strengthto his home politics. For every city in Asia which acceptedAlexander accepted also the fact that Macedonia was reinforced him by just so much. Meanwhile the Persian king was no whit abashed. Helooked upon the defeat of his generals by the Greeks as amere accident, due to bad management, which could be readilyrepaired by proper means. Asia Minor was at one of the dis-tant ends of his dominions, and he did not comprehend whatAlexanders progress meant. He did, however, see by howmuch Memnons advice had been the best, and had, accord-ingly, placed him in supreme command of the theatre ofoperations, in the expectation of speedily retrieving the dis-asters which had followed Alexanders initial Tetradrachma in Berlin Museum.(Alexander idealized as Hercules.) XXII. CILICIA. SUMMER AND FALL, B. C. 333. Mbmnon, who had just been placed in sole command of the ^gean byDarius, and was preparing to invade Macedonia, now died. This relievedAlexander from grave danger, for Memnon had no worthy successor. Dariusdetermined to collect an army and march to meet Alexander. The latter, afterhis late successes, was better able to sustain a fleet, and took measures to replacethe one he had disbanded. At Gordium Alexander cut the Gordian knot, — orat least managed to impress upon all the idea that he had fulfilled the omenconnected therewith, and would be lord of Asia. Master of all Asia Minorwest of the Taurus, he marched towards the Cilician Gates. This defile Dariussatrap had failed to fortify. Alexander ca
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