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 . had givenmutual hostages. As the Mallian territory was the one pri-marily threatened, the Oxydracians would have been obligedto leave their own to join the Mallians. The joint armyproposed to manoeuvre under cover of the desert. But as thetribes could not agree on a common leader (being among thefree Indians and, says Arrian, jealous of each other to thelast degree) the confederate scheme fell through. While
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 . had givenmutual hostages. As the Mallian territory was the one pri-marily threatened, the Oxydracians would have been obligedto leave their own to join the Mallians. The joint armyproposed to manoeuvre under cover of the desert. But as thetribes could not agree on a common leader (being among thefree Indians and, says Arrian, jealous of each other to thelast degree) the confederate scheme fell through. While notvouched for on good authority this statement seems to agreewith subsequent facts. The first half days march brought Alexander to a smallwater a dozen miles (one hundred stades) from the Acesines(perhaps the small river Ayek, midway between Jungh andShorkot, eleven miles from the Chenab). Informed that this 596 AN ASTONISHING MARCH, was the last water to be had till the army reached the city towhich the largest force of the Mallians had fled, — for on thefailure of the scheme of confederation all the barbarians hadretired to their respective strongholds,—Alexander rested the. Mallian Cainpaign. army and gave each man orders to fill whatever vessels he hadon hand with water to last him across the desert tract beforethem. From this water on, the march occupied the balanceof this day and the succeeding night, no stop being made andabout forty-five miles (four hundred stades) being covered inthis time, a remarkable march for the twenty-four had calculated well in choosing this route so as to A COMPLETE SURPRISE, 597 surprise the Indians. They did not in the least expect himfrom this direction. When nearing the end of the journey,he advanced ahead of the phalanx with the cavalry and sooncame in sight of the MaUian city of Agallassa (modern Kot-Kamalia) on the edge of the desert of the Sandar. There have been numerous attempts to identify and locatethe places th
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