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 . standard. Xenophon, in the Cyro-psedia, describes their tactics at the battle of Thymbra. Theystood in large, dense masses, very deep, often in squares ofone hundred files of one hundred men, and, covered by linkedshields and protruded lances, were dangerous to attack. TheEgyptians fortified theircamps in rectangidar form,and built extensive walls toprotect their borders. Se-sostris erected one extendingfrom Pelu
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 . standard. Xenophon, in the Cyro-psedia, describes their tactics at the battle of Thymbra. Theystood in large, dense masses, very deep, often in squares ofone hundred files of one hundred men, and, covered by linkedshields and protruded lances, were dangerous to attack. TheEgyptians fortified theircamps in rectangidar form,and built extensive walls toprotect their borders. Se-sostris erected one extendingfrom Pelusium to Heliopo-lis. Their cities were for-tified with walls of severalstories. But, as with othernations at this period, theart of sieges was little ad-vanced. Ashdod, though not ~strongly fortified, resistedPsammeticus twenty-nine years. Sesostris is supposed to have had six hundred thousandinfantry, twenty-seven thousand chariots and twenty-fourthousand horse. He is said to have conquered Ethiopia, thencrossed from Meroe to Arabia Petrea, and thence made ex-cursions as far as India. He later sailed to Phoenicia, andoverran a large part of Asia Minor. Sesostris is alleged to. Egyptian Soldiers. 24 CYRUS.
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