Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . on the PROPOSED MARCH TO THE GANGES, 677 H3rpliasis, intending to cross and subjugate the tribes there seemed to be no limit to the kings desire to con-quer, so long as any land or city or tribe remained withinreach to be conquered. And the territory beyond the Hy-phasis was said to be fertile and to be inhabited by a finepeople, tall in stature and gallant in war, who possessed largerand fiercer e
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . on the PROPOSED MARCH TO THE GANGES, 677 H3rpliasis, intending to cross and subjugate the tribes there seemed to be no limit to the kings desire to con-quer, so long as any land or city or tribe remained withinreach to be conquered. And the territory beyond the Hy-phasis was said to be fertile and to be inhabited by a finepeople, tall in stature and gallant in war, who possessed largerand fiercer elephants than were to be found anywhere else inIndia. Their government was a liberal aristocracy. Withthese people Alexander wished to become acquainted, and addthem to the population owing fealty to his sceptre. He hadthe feeling, too, that so long as he did not reach a naturalbarrier, such as the sea or a desert or great mountain range,he ran danger from nations he did not subdue. He had alsoconceived the desire of reaching the Ganges, and of movingdown this river to the Indian Ocean. Alexander himself wastireless, insatiable. But the spirit of his Macedonians hadbegun to Alexander.(From a Statue in the Smith-Barry Collection.) XLIII. TURNING BACK. JULY TO OCTOBER, B. C. 326. The Macedonian soldiers had determined to proceed no farther. They had,through their officers, certain rights of protest. These they concluded to en-force. For three months, rain had incessantly fallen, and with it the moraltone of the troops. They were ragged; their arms were worn out; of armorthere was scarcely any. They were not only unwilling, they were unfit, tomarch farther in advance — to the Ganges and the sea, as Alexander wishedthem to do. Alexanders eloquence on this occasion failed. The men did noth-ing mutinous; they simply declined to advance. Alexander recognized theconditions. The sacrifices proved inauspicious. He agreed to return. It waswell that he turned back. Much longer abs
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