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 . k|;>? XENlPPA o AlEKANDRfA ;^_ffj^„f„ vi>> /v CYROPOLIS q/^ s^~^~. Bactria and Sogdiana. campaigns, Bessus had been rather a confederate than a sub-ordinate of Darius. That Bessus had brought the ScythianSacae to Arbela as allies of the Great King looked as ifAlexander might have to encounter these wild peoples aswell. 460 MARACANDA. From Drapsaca, Alexander rapidly advanced over tliepasses in
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 . k|;>? XENlPPA o AlEKANDRfA ;^_ffj^„f„ vi>> /v CYROPOLIS q/^ s^~^~. Bactria and Sogdiana. campaigns, Bessus had been rather a confederate than a sub-ordinate of Darius. That Bessus had brought the ScythianSacae to Arbela as allies of the Great King looked as ifAlexander might have to encounter these wild peoples aswell. 460 MARACANDA. From Drapsaca, Alexander rapidly advanced over tliepasses in the lower ranges without opposition to Aornus, andthence over the fruit-bearing plains towards Bactra or Za-riaspa. Bessus, who had believed himself well secured frominvasion by the mountains and the devastated land on theirnorthern slopes, awoke suddenly to his danger. On the firstsign of Alexanders apjsearance he retired behind the Oxus(Jihoun or Amou), burned all the boats he used in crossing,and took refuge in Nautaca, in Sogdiana. When his Bac-trian cavalry saw that he would not stay to defend his ownsatrapy, it dispersed, every man to his home. But the Sog-dianians and Daans still remained with him. Reaching Zariaspa, Alexander took it at the first assaul
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