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 . Troy (1193-1184 B. c.) we find clear evi-dences of organization. Aga-memnon evidently had the legalpower to compel the reluctantGreek monarchs to join him inan expedition based on a merepersonal quarrel. Achilles hadtwenty-five hundred men, dividedinto five regiments of five hun-dred men each. The Greeks ad-vanced to battle in a phalanx ordeep body, shield to shield, andin silence, so that the orders of ?,?,-, •
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 . Troy (1193-1184 B. c.) we find clear evi-dences of organization. Aga-memnon evidently had the legalpower to compel the reluctantGreek monarchs to join him inan expedition based on a merepersonal quarrel. Achilles hadtwenty-five hundred men, dividedinto five regiments of five hun-dred men each. The Greeks ad-vanced to battle in a phalanx ordeep body, shield to shield, andin silence, so that the orders of ?,?,-, • ^ ^ ^ it-» Greek Soldier, in Linen Cuirass. the leaders might be heard, liut in front of the lines of the armies there always took place a series of duels betweenthe doughtiest champions,— as it were a prolongedand very important com-bat of skirmishers beforethe closing of the heavylines. But coupled withan admirable idea of dis-cipline was the habit ofplundering the slain, forwhich purpose rankswould be broken andoften a decisive advan-tage lost. Prisoners weretreated with awfid inhu-Ancient Greek Soldier. nianitv Camps were regular, and often fortified. The men used. 30 SIEGE OF TROY. no tents, but camped in the open, building huts if long inone place. At Troy the Greek camp had a broad and deepditch, jDalisades, or a wall made of the earth thrown up fromthe ditch, and wooden towers on the wall. Behind this thearmy camped in huts. Fortification had advanced but little beyond the roughestwork. The art of sieges was all but unknown. The ten years blockade of Troy amply showsthe latter fact, as the constant fight-ing outside the to\vn j^roves that lit-tle reliance was placed on the valueof its walls by the Trojans. TheGreeks did not surround the city,but sat down on the sea-coast be-fore it and blockaded it, some hun-dred thousand strong. Troy wasable to ration itself from the MountIda region. The ^lE^ were sadly put to it forvictuals, and were com-pelled to detail
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