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 . APTURE OF PELIUM. idly on his heels, he launched the Agrianians and archers,formed in phalangial order, upon the flank of the barbarianscamp and took them en flagrant delit. Many were caughtin their beds; all were taken by surprise. The rout wascomplete. Numbers were slaughtered, numbers who escaped lost their weapons. Alexander pursuedthe relics of this force as far as the Taulantian
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 . APTURE OF PELIUM. idly on his heels, he launched the Agrianians and archers,formed in phalangial order, upon the flank of the barbarianscamp and took them en flagrant delit. Many were caughtin their beds; all were taken by surprise. The rout wascomplete. Numbers were slaughtered, numbers who escaped lost their weapons. Alexander pursuedthe relics of this force as far as the Taulantian fled into the city, but finding that he could not hold it,set it on fire and withdrew to join Glaucias, near the Adriaticcoast. Thus Alexander regained Pelium and reestablished theoutpost which was so essential to the security of and Glaucias were glad to accept terms and againswear fealty to Alexander. The position was put into such astate of defense that no fear remained of its falling: arain intoIllyrian hands. The barbarian neighbors of Macedonia hadreceived a series of salutary lessons, and recognized that agreater than Philip now sat upon the Tetradrachma in Louvre.(Head of Alexander, idealized as Hercules.) XVII. THEBES. B. C. 335. The Persian monarch had foreseen the threatening danger to his kingdomfrom restless Alexander. He began to distribute money among the anti-Mace-donians of Greece. The rumor of the death of Alexander before Pelium deter-mined Thebes to revolt and eject the Macedonian garrison from the and other cities promised active aid. So soon as Pelium was takenAlexander marched rapidly southward. In two weeks he covered three hun-dred miles over a mountain road, and appeared suddenly before Thebes. Hewas anxious to save the city, but the misguided Thebans pronounced their owndoom. The town was stormed, sacked and razed to the ground, and the Thebanterritory added to that of its neighbors, late its vassals. Athen
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