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 . Telenon and Mural Hook. besiegers on fire, by casting inflammable arrows with thecatapults and fire-pots with the ballista. Walls were protectedagainst the rams by aprons calculated to deaden the were made of wool mattresses, ropes and other soft ma,-terial. The rams were seized and picked up by huge tongsoperated from the wall, or were broken or unliinged byweights dropped on them from above. Sorties
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 . Telenon and Mural Hook. besiegers on fire, by casting inflammable arrows with thecatapults and fire-pots with the ballista. Walls were protectedagainst the rams by aprons calculated to deaden the were made of wool mattresses, ropes and other soft ma,-terial. The rams were seized and picked up by huge tongsoperated from the wall, or were broken or unliinged byweights dropped on them from above. Sorties were constantly made to endeavor to burn the worksand disturb the besiegers. Apparently the ancients were asfertile in resources as we are to-day in the matter of siegesand if their artillery was less powerful than our own, their 180 FIELD FORTIFICATION. machines nevertheless were capable of doing remarkably effi-cient work. Field fortifications were rarely employed by the Greeks-These were usually confined to the defense of defiles, and,except to surround the camps, were never used in the Pent-House and Kam picked up by Tongs. Indeed, the Greek camps were by no means so admirablyfortified as they were in later centuries by the Romans. Still,the Greeks in front of Troy fortified their camp, and on oneoccasion it saved them from disaster, and there are many laterinstances of temporary intrenchments. But their use, as weunderstand them to-day, was unknown. XIV. ALEXANDER AND GREECE. B. C. 336. Philip had for years harbored desig-ns of an expedition against the Persianmonarchy, but did not live to carry them out. Alexander succeeded him at theage of twenty. He had been educated under Aristotle. No monarch of hisyears was ever so well equipped in heart and head. Like Frederick, he wasmaster from the start. Though the name has changed, the king remains,quoth he. His arras he found ready to hand, tempered in his fathers it was his own strength and skill which wield
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