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 . Cataphractos (from a vase). MACE DON RESEMBLED GREECE. 83 A more detailed account will be found in a later chapterof the military organization of Macedon. The Greek andMacedonian systems were analogous, and much of what issaid of the one applies to the Armor of Greek Chieftain. VII. MILTIADES. —MARATHON. B. C. 490. During the Persian invasion of Greece, at the battle of Marathon, occurredone of the early
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 . Cataphractos (from a vase). MACE DON RESEMBLED GREECE. 83 A more detailed account will be found in a later chapterof the military organization of Macedon. The Greek andMacedonian systems were analogous, and much of what issaid of the one applies to the Armor of Greek Chieftain. VII. MILTIADES. —MARATHON. B. C. 490. During the Persian invasion of Greece, at the battle of Marathon, occurredone of the early tactical variations from the parallel order. Miltiades had buteleven thousand men; the Persians had ten times as many. They lay on theseashore in front of their fleet. To reach and lean his flanks on two brooksrunning to the sea, Miltiades made his centre thin, his wings strong, and ad-vanced sharply on the enemy. With his wings he scattered the Persian array;as was inevitable, the deep Persian line easily broke through his weakenedcentre. But Miltiades had either anticipated and prepared his army for this,or else seized the occasion by a very stroke of genius. There Avas no symptomof demoralization. The Persian troops followed hard after the defeated caused each wing to wheel inwards, and fell upon both flanks of thePersian advance, absolutely overwhelming it, and throwing it back upon themain line in such confus
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