Famous and decisive battles of the world; . ture, one can almost forgive him the cold-blooded slaughter of such an arrant dastard and poltroon asDarius. EARLY DEATH OF ALEXANDER. 93 Two hundred years before, Persia was mistress of the Easternworld. Attempting to sweep over Europe, she was checked atMarathon, overthrown and driven back at Plataea and Salamis;then, Httle by little, sapped of her once prodigious hundred and thirty-five years before Christ the little king-dom of Macedon marched eastward its armies to turn the tableson the would-be conquerors. At the Granicus its you
Famous and decisive battles of the world; . ture, one can almost forgive him the cold-blooded slaughter of such an arrant dastard and poltroon asDarius. EARLY DEATH OF ALEXANDER. 93 Two hundred years before, Persia was mistress of the Easternworld. Attempting to sweep over Europe, she was checked atMarathon, overthrown and driven back at Plataea and Salamis;then, Httle by little, sapped of her once prodigious hundred and thirty-five years before Christ the little king-dom of Macedon marched eastward its armies to turn the tableson the would-be conquerors. At the Granicus its young kingoverrode a more numerous army than his own; at Issus he ad-ministered an overwhelming defeat; at Arbela he became masterof Asia. Had he lived he might have been monarch of theworld ; but, dying at Babylon in the midst of his triumphs, hisgreat empire was divided up among his generals, and within lessthan a century in strife among their descendants the fruits of hisconquests were consumed, and Macedonian sway in Asia diedout BATTLE-FIELD OF ARBELA.
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