The world: historical and actual . o, sparingAthens to show thepaternity of his gov-ernment, if only firmand secure. Alexander came tothe throne in B. , and two years laterset out for Asia, leaving Greece, as it proved,forever. He had an army of only 30,000 footand 5,000 horse. With that small band he under-took the conquest of the world, for the empirewhich he was to assail ruled the whole civilizedworld, outside of Greece and its offshoots, and theAsiatic portion of the latter. It is true that manyGreeks preferred Persian friendship to Macedoniansupremacy, and while the great soldier wa
The world: historical and actual . o, sparingAthens to show thepaternity of his gov-ernment, if only firmand secure. Alexander came tothe throne in B. , and two years laterset out for Asia, leaving Greece, as it proved,forever. He had an army of only 30,000 footand 5,000 horse. With that small band he under-took the conquest of the world, for the empirewhich he was to assail ruled the whole civilizedworld, outside of Greece and its offshoots, and theAsiatic portion of the latter. It is true that manyGreeks preferred Persian friendship to Macedoniansupremacy, and while the great soldier was fightingfor Greek civilization, as he professed and as theevent proved, Antipater, who had been left incharge of Alexanders affairs at home, found it hardwork to maintain his ground. But Alexanderfreely supplied him with the sinews of war fromthe rich booty of Persian plunder, and so well didthe vicegerent use his means, that the scepter ofMaeedon was more potent throughout Greece inthe absence than in the presence of To follow the swift course of the warrior whoranks with Caesar and Napoleon as one of thethree greatest soldiers of all time, would be foreignto our purpose. Wherever he went victory fol-lowed. He met Darius and his army upon the openfield, and it was Marathon and Salamis over vast army was routed in a battle near Issus inB. C. 333, and a second and still larger army wasdefeated two years later near Arbela. During theintervening two years he had taken Tyre, receivedthe homage of Egypt, and cast about for moreworlds to conquer. After the second battle he wasundisputed master of all the Persian empire, but not ready by any meansto stay his victoriouscourse. lie pressed onto India, everywherevictorious. He wouldprobably have pushedon to the utmost vergeof the Orient, but final-ly he was obliged toturn back. The sol-diers who were invinci-ble in battle were stub-born in refusing to goany farther. He foundthe hardships f r o mthirst and hunger o
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