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 . f the army never lived to cross, has no losses those killed in battle were wont to be honored by men-tion, few indeed compared to the men who perished in expos-ures such as these. The route from Susia, before Alexanderturned south to Drangiana, would have been in comparisoneasy. And this, as we have seen, was his first-chosen path ;but the dangers from the southerly provinces forestalled hisintenti
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 . f the army never lived to cross, has no losses those killed in battle were wont to be honored by men-tion, few indeed compared to the men who perished in expos-ures such as these. The route from Susia, before Alexanderturned south to Drangiana, would have been in comparisoneasy. And this, as we have seen, was his first-chosen path ;but the dangers from the southerly provinces forestalled hisintention, and having reached the Caucasus at a point so farto the east, he had practically no choice but between passesin this part of the chain, and had selected this one for thereasons given. AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION, 459 Bactria and Sogdiana were the seat of an ancient and well-developed civilization, and had since their conquest been theeastern bulwark of Persia. Never entirely reduced to posses-sion by the Great King, they had none the less joined hisstandard, while retaining their own liberties ; and, in the last C Y r .^^^ S^ S: 6AZA O kj^ XENtPPA o MlXANORiA ULTlMA>^)ff«. OSAG>C ;5^ >y\ pi CV R 0 PO LI S o^ \ ^^-^-i-^L----^ ..•? ^i/.^* ?JAUTACA i^ OROCK OF ARi MAZES4^ CHORIENES VM*>v ON THE MAR^ o^rT^^\v\V ^;• * ., ^. ^w yv * Bactria and Sogdiana. campaigns, Bessus had been rather a confederate than a sub-ordinate of Darius. That Bessus had brought the Sc}i;hianSacae to Arbela as allies of the Great King looked as ifAlexander might have to encounter these wild peoples aswell. 460 MARACANDA. From Drapsaca, Alexander rapidly advanced over thepasses in the lower ranges without opposition to Aornus, andthence over the fruit-bearing plains towards Bactra or Za-riaspa. Bessus, who had believed himself well secured frominvasion by the mountains and the devastated land on theirnorthern slopes, awoke suddenly to his danger. On the firstsign of Alexan
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