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Title: Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 1842-1909
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C Military art and science
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ich is essential to inspire adventurers with respect orfear. Clearchus, on the other hand, always hard and cruel,could obtain from his soldiers only that sort of sentimentwhich children have for a schoolmaster. This is a crisp dis-tinction, which every man in service has noticed. Alexanderwas of a different stamp. In his treatment of his army or ofconquered peoples he was alike happy. I have not come toAsia, said he, to destroy nations; I have come here that 394 TOWARDS PERSIS. those who are subdued by my arms shall have naught tocomplain of my victories. And he accomplished what heset out to do by the singular ability to control all classes ofmen, and to fuse discordant elements into a homogeneousmass. Alexander now set out from Susa. His next objective wasPersepolis, the capital of Persis, the place of origin of thePersian conquerors. The possession of Persepolis wouldmean to the superstitious population the possession of thekingdom. It was important, not only to reach the treasures
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MILL3. ^O Snsa to Persepolis. in the cities of Persis, but to reach them before Darius hadtime to get together another army for their protection. ForAlexander was as yet unaware of Darius plans and purpose.He merely knew that he had fled from Arbela. Between him AN ALPINE ROUTE. 395 and Persepolis lay a rugged Alpine country, traversed by buta single practicable road, and with defiles easily held by ahandful. But the Greeks were always good mountain fight-ers. They were mountaineers by birth, and had had trainingin mountain warfare from their earliest campaigns. It isdoubtful if any modern nation has ever come near to equal-ing the mountain tactics of Xenophon or Alexander. Moun-tains had no terrors for the Macedonian army. It is perhaps difficult to give an adequate idea of the tre-mendous difficulties to be surmounted in this march fromSusa to Persepolis, which some of the ancient historians dis-miss with a sentence. There is to-day a plentiful lack of in-formation about this rarely

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