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 . t his rj? power to those who believedthat there was no morePhilip. His route lay alongthe coast towards the Penae-an passes. The main defileof Tempe as well as the mi-nor one of Callipeuke wasstrongly held. To attackthem was more than hazard-ous ; it would plainly be f utile. Ossa rises in steeprocky masses south of the pass of Tempe. From the ^»-* \\\^ sea, however, the slope ofOssa is more gradual thanalong the
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 . t his rj? power to those who believedthat there was no morePhilip. His route lay alongthe coast towards the Penae-an passes. The main defileof Tempe as well as the mi-nor one of Callipeuke wasstrongly held. To attackthem was more than hazard-ous ; it would plainly be f utile. Ossa rises in steeprocky masses south of the pass of Tempe. From the ^»-* \\\^ sea, however, the slope ofOssa is more gradual thanalong the Penaeus. With that fertility of resource and activeembracing of difficulty which was always his marked charac-teristic, Alexander, unknown to the enemy, hewed himself aneveir-yet-trodden path along the slopes of Ossa on the sea-sitle, blasting a foothold for his army where it could not oth-erwise make its way, and turned the Thessalian force in thepasses. He was thus master of the situation, and his boldintelligence had made him master of Thessaly. But he de-sired to keep this country friendly, for the Thessalian horse-men made the best cavalry in Greece, and he needed above. March into Thessaly. 186 ALEXANDER MADE HEGEMON. all things horse in his projected Persian war. With the plau-sible generosity which he could so well display, — and Alex-anders promise was always sacredly redeemed, — on conven-ing an assembly, he persuaded the Thessaliaus to give himall they had granted Philip, and if necessary to help him asagainst the rest of Hellas. Not only Thessaly, but othertribes which had Amphictyonic votes Alexander thus gained,and speedily made his way unopposed through the pass ofThermopylae. Here he convened the Amphictyonic council and was de-clared Hegemon (cajitain-general) of Greece, as had beenPhilip before him. Thebes and Athens sent no representa-tives ; but on Alexanders moving on Thebes, both citieshastened to agree to the terms of the Amphictyonic
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