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 . Gaza. could be successfully reached and battered down, owing to theheight of the ground on which they were built above the levelof the plain. But Alexander would consider no difficultywhatever. After Tyre, was there any city which could resisthim? He began the construction of a mound around thecity, beginning on the south side where the walls seemed leaststout; and here, too, the mound was largest. In an almostin
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 . Gaza. could be successfully reached and battered down, owing to theheight of the ground on which they were built above the levelof the plain. But Alexander would consider no difficultywhatever. After Tyre, was there any city which could resisthim? He began the construction of a mound around thecity, beginning on the south side where the walls seemed leaststout; and here, too, the mound was largest. In an almostincredibly short time this mound had — probably only inplaces — risen to a height such that the engines could be setat work upon the walls. It Is not improbable that there wereseveral of these mounds. A HUGE MOUND. 345 When the battering was about to begin, and Alexanderwas, according to custom, sacrificing to the gods, a bird ofprey flew above him, and let fall a pebble which smote Alex-ander on the head. But the bird then alighted on one of themachines, and was caught in some of its ropes. The sooth-sayer Aristander, from this event, prophesied that Alexandershould indeed
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