Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . e should attack. The enemy promised to be a more or lessstationary mass compared with his own rapidly moving Mace-donians. This was a first and great gain. With the rapidity of clear conceptions, Alexander deter-mined to attack the Indian flanks, the left flank in force, andto seek to grasp some advantage before any tactical manoeuvrecould be undertaken or change of formation made by the ene-my. He knew full
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . e should attack. The enemy promised to be a more or lessstationary mass compared with his own rapidly moving Mace-donians. This was a first and great gain. With the rapidity of clear conceptions, Alexander deter-mined to attack the Indian flanks, the left flank in force, andto seek to grasp some advantage before any tactical manoeuvrecould be undertaken or change of formation made by the ene-my. He knew full well that his army could work with thrice 556 ALEXANDERS PLAN. the rapidity of the enemy; and he was as always consciousthat he himself could think and act more quickly. He there-fore sent Ccenus with his own — the agema — and Demetriuscavalry by a circuit, and hidden by the rolling ground, againstthe enemys right, with instructions, should the horse on Porusright attempt to ride to the assistance of the horse on his left, fr-. *?? ^.^ALEXANDER.^ 5::; .:.. r-. •??• ADVANCE Z. r ! -•• -r »-«^ •r ?J .-? ..-?m- ?4 * -? , I If • I \ \;> Phalanx. Elephants ^ «m : ^ I M FA M T R. V Battle of the Hydaspes. to fall, if possible, upon the rear of the infantry. Alexan-der himself, with the bulk of the cavalry, followed at sustain-ing distance by the infantry, made an oblique movementagainst the enemys left where Porus had but two thousandcavalry and the chariots — these latter a doubtful chose this flank for his own attack, partly because he hadbeen hugging the river and the protection of his forces on the WHAT PORUS SHOULD HAVE DONE, 557 other side, and partly from his usual habit of himself leadinghis own right wing, where he felt the most at home. Hemade this movement in such a way as to lead Porus to sup-pose that he was merely uncovering his infantry, so that thismight then advance to a front attack, the very thing Porusdesired. P
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