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 . Before the Battle of Marathon. pushed to the rear, nor could they be steadied and a new lineformed until the foot of the hill was reached whence theyhad started. Here a stand was made, and here too cameMiltiades opportunity. He had no doubt foreseen the prob-ability of just this turn in the battle; or if not, he seized itwith the genius of the born captain. With true military couj)dail he gauged the proper moment
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 . Before the Battle of Marathon. pushed to the rear, nor could they be steadied and a new lineformed until the foot of the hill was reached whence theyhad started. Here a stand was made, and here too cameMiltiades opportunity. He had no doubt foreseen the prob-ability of just this turn in the battle; or if not, he seized itwith the genius of the born captain. With true military couj)dail he gauged the proper moment. The preconcerted or awell-known signal was given by the trumpets, and the twoGreek wings, having routed the Persians opposed to them,without losing their steadiness, wheeled their serried ranks THUCYDIDES ACCOUNT. 89 right and left in upon the mass o£ struggling Oriental sol-diery which had driven back the centre and was followinghard vipon. This splendid manoeuvre not only disconcertedthe enemy, but put him at the mercy of the Greek Persian van, thus taken on either flank, was compro-mised. Only the efforts of isolated bodies were possible, and. Greek MancBuvre at Marathon. these could effectuate nothing. Demoralization spread. Thevictory was complete. The enemy was followed to his the conflict was still more severe and the slaughterenormous. There fell six thousand four hundred Persiansand but one hundred and ninety-two Greeks. The battle hadbeen won by crisp tactical skill and discipline, against enor-mous odds and equal individual bravery. Thueydides devotes small space to the battle of states that the centre was defeated and followed up by theenemy; that the wings won a victory; and that then Milti- 90 SPARTANS COME TOO LATE. ades, allowing the Persians to fly, united both wings andfought with those who had broken the centre. No other con-ceivable manoeuvre than the one narrated seems to coincidewith and satisfy these statements and th
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