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 . tter of safety to themselves, were confident thatthey could intercept the Persians in their i-etreat. But hap-pily Darius was able to secure Iris communications with thebridge, and was fortunate indeed to get his army over to thesouth bank in safety. He had lost eighty thousand men inseventy days. This campaign suggests in many features theRussian campaign of Napoleon, though the latter by no meansfailed for lack
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 . tter of safety to themselves, were confident thatthey could intercept the Persians in their i-etreat. But hap-pily Darius was able to secure Iris communications with thebridge, and was fortunate indeed to get his army over to thesouth bank in safety. He had lost eighty thousand men inseventy days. This campaign suggests in many features theRussian campaign of Napoleon, though the latter by no meansfailed for lack of careful preparation. But the method of theScythians was in its intelligence somewhat similar to that ofthe Russians, while Darius had failed from lack of study ofhis problem, and because he believed that numbers alone suf-ficed in war. He had made no preparations for victual, norprovided a means of forestalling such opposition as the Scyth-ians exhibited. But though Darius failed in this campaign,he subdued Thrace, and extended his empire to the confinesof the Indus. His failure leaves him still with a large repu-tation as a soldier, added to a still greater one as a
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