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 . ar at seawere not so different as they are to-day. The hoplite served on the fleet asreadily as on land. Ships were small and put into shore every night. The nu-merous rowers left small room for soldiers aboard. War ships sought to ramtheir opponents and then to board them. Naval tactics was simple. In Sparta,Laconians, freedmen, helots and mercenaries crept into the army. In Athens, ORGANIZATION OF DARIUS. bl th
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 . ar at seawere not so different as they are to-day. The hoplite served on the fleet asreadily as on land. Ships were small and put into shore every night. The nu-merous rowers left small room for soldiers aboard. War ships sought to ramtheir opponents and then to board them. Naval tactics was simple. In Sparta,Laconians, freedmen, helots and mercenaries crept into the army. In Athens, ORGANIZATION OF DARIUS. bl the list of citizens freed from personal service g-rew large. The people allowedsmall scope to the strategoi; they were under a civil officers control, to thegreat loss of ability to act. Cavalry began to improve somewhat in numbersand effectiveness. Athens looked at war more intelligently than Sparta. Thelatter never saw beyond its material side. Persians. — The Persian kingdom founded by Cyrus firstreceived a regular military organization from Darius, son ofHystaspes (b. c. 521-485). Tliis monarch divided his terri-tory into twenty satrapies, confided to each satrap only the.
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