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 . rebels in a great battlenear the coast, between the Arabius and Tomerus rivers, andslew all their leaders. This pacified the new province. The kings force was not large. It may be estimatedthus: — Alexander had in India 120,000 men Garrisons left by the way, say 30,000 Nearchus, say 100 vessels @ 150 men each . . 15,000Craterus took with him some ....... 40,000 85,000 Leaving to march with Alexander across the de
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 . rebels in a great battlenear the coast, between the Arabius and Tomerus rivers, andslew all their leaders. This pacified the new province. The kings force was not large. It may be estimatedthus: — Alexander had in India 120,000 men Garrisons left by the way, say 30,000 Nearchus, say 100 vessels @ 150 men each . . 15,000Craterus took with him some ....... 40,000 85,000 Leaving to march with Alexander across the desert . . 35,000 menThis march would not have involved such grievous periland loss if the provisions which Alexander had ordered col-lected by Sibyrtius, satrap of part of Carmania, and by Apol- 622 SE MIR AMIS AND CYRUS. lophanes, satrap of Gedrosia, had been promptly got latter had been especially ordered to station beeves andcorn along the route. Alexander expected to be met on theway by caravans of victuals. There were none; and he mustbe blamed for starting on his dangerous route without a cer-tainty of provision. He was so entirely in the habit of being. PERSIAN . CULF Desert of Gedrosia. obeyed that he was wont to consider as already accomplishedwhatever he ordered to be done. But this does not excuse inany degree the carelessness of the present occasion. This isthe only instance in all Alexanders campaigns when he failedto have a care to his rations. The satrap of Carmania appearsnot to have been held to blame, for Alexander afterwardsadded to his dignities. Perhaps he had received his orderstoo late. It was a matter of tradition that Semiramis returned fromher conquest of India through this desert, and that of thehundreds of thousands of which her army consisted, buttwenty individuals came back with her to Babylon. Cyrustoo, though incorrectly, was reputed to have crossed thisdesert with like sad results. Even the fanatic Islam consid-ered Gedrosia as a b
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