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 . and reestablished the he sailed to Lesbos, landed, and took its four largetowns, all, in fact, but the city of Mitylene. This city resistedhis efforts for some time with the aid of its Macedonian gar-rison. But Memnon went systematically to work. He cut thecity off from the land by double walls, and blockaded its portwith his fleet. This soon reduced it to great straits. But nodoubt very luckily
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 . and reestablished the he sailed to Lesbos, landed, and took its four largetowns, all, in fact, but the city of Mitylene. This city resistedhis efforts for some time with the aid of its Macedonian gar-rison. But Memnon went systematically to work. He cut thecity off from the land by double walls, and blockaded its portwith his fleet. This soon reduced it to great straits. But nodoubt very luckily for Alexander (for he was his one distinctlyable opponent) Memnon shortly after died of a fever, leaving MEMNON DIES. 285 the temporary command to his nephew Pharnabazus. Mem-nons plan had been to sail for the Hellespont, so soon as hehad a suitable base in the -^gean, cut Alexanders communi-cations at this point, and thence invade Macedonia. He wasthe one man in the service of Darius whose conception of themethods by which to meet Alexanders invasion had all alongbeen clear, intelligent and practicable. His successor was,however, by no means equal to the task thus Mitylene, hard pressed, was finally obliged to surrender itsallegiance to Alexander, which it did on the promise by Phar-nabazus and by Autophradates, who was serving with him, ofcertain favorable conditions ; but no sooner did the Persiansobtain possession of the city than they violated all the agree-ments, and exacted heavy tribute from the citizens. Theyobtained possession of Tenedos in much the same vigor seemed to survive him for some activity thus displayed by the Persian fleet, if put inpractice a year sooner, might have seriously interfered with 286 DARIUS PLANS. Alexanders landing in Asia. But Memnon was not at thattime fully trusted, and was unable to make his influence orhis intelligence avail. The death of Memnon was on a par with the uniform cur-rent of good fortune,
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