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 . ops. Craterus took a route fartherto the east of him, and had his own and Amyntas taxes,some six hundred archers and an equal force of cavalry. Hewas to attack the Tarpurians. Erigyius took the easier pub-lic thoroughfare to Zadracarta, with the Greek mercenariesand the rest of the cavalry, the baggage and the vast trainof camp followers. 430 DARIUS OFFICERS. « Alexanders advance had to be made with the utmos
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 . ops. Craterus took a route fartherto the east of him, and had his own and Amyntas taxes,some six hundred archers and an equal force of cavalry. Hewas to attack the Tarpurians. Erigyius took the easier pub-lic thoroughfare to Zadracarta, with the Greek mercenariesand the rest of the cavalry, the baggage and the vast trainof camp followers. 430 DARIUS OFFICERS. « Alexanders advance had to be made with the utmost cir-cumspection, for the barbarians beset every one of the manyand intricate passes, and were ready to fall upon any unpro-tected part of this column; but what Alexander had earlylearned from Xenophon about doing this species of work,had since been supplemented by a goodly amount of individ-ual experience. Having with his column crossed the firstrange of mountains, he learned that some of Darius old offi-cers were not far off. He pushed forward with the hypas-pists, the lightest of the phalangites and some archers, oververy hard roads, and in the midst of threatened attacks and. TH^UA ////^^^^PCOYLOS lOO AAiiei Caspian Campaign. ambuscades. He was compelled to leave rear-guards at manypoints, to protect the passage of his column. Pity, indeed,that the details of his march have been lost! Reaching theriver Ziobetis, which cannot now be identified, he campedfour dajS, during which time many of these men came inand surrendered. Among them were Nabarzanes and Phra-taphernes. The latter and his sons did subsequent excellentservice for Alexander. Of Nabarzanes no further mentionis made. He was probably relegated to obscurity. By theexercise of skill and care, Alexander drew in his rear-guards,and completed his passage of the mountains without materialloss, though the Agrianians had a sharp rear-guard fight at REWARDING DARIUS SERVANTS. 431 the very close of the operations. He then
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