Alexander the GreatAllen Lane, 1973 - 568 pages Series follows well-known personalities back to the ancient times in which they lived. |
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... Companion Cavalry , another son the Shield Bearers ; a nephew , or cousin , led half of the Mounted Scouts , and the leader of the Elimiot foot - brigade was now his son - in - law . Three other infantry officers and a prominent cavalry ...
... Companion Cavalry , another son the Shield Bearers ; a nephew , or cousin , led half of the Mounted Scouts , and the leader of the Elimiot foot - brigade was now his son - in - law . Three other infantry officers and a prominent cavalry ...
Page 239
... Companion cavalry into their customary wedge and showed the nearest foot brigades the way to an offensive against a Persian centre , exposed , disordered and not too heavily his superior in immediate numbers . Like a skilled wing ...
... Companion cavalry into their customary wedge and showed the nearest foot brigades the way to an offensive against a Persian centre , exposed , disordered and not too heavily his superior in immediate numbers . Like a skilled wing ...
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... Companions had abandoned the sarissa as too un- wieldy for the mountainous ground and they never used it with Alexander again ; the Mounted Lancers had done the same and been merged with the Companion Cavalry , whose numbers had now ...
... Companions had abandoned the sarissa as too un- wieldy for the mountainous ground and they never used it with Alexander again ; the Mounted Lancers had done the same and been merged with the Companion Cavalry , whose numbers had now ...
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Achilles Aegean Alex Alex.'s Alexander Alexander's death Alexandria allies already Ammon Antipater Aristob Aristotle army Asia Athenian Athens Babylon Bactria battle Berve s.v. Bessus Callisthenes camp cavalry chariot Cleit coins command court Craterus Darius Darius's desert Dionysus east Egypt Egyptian elephants empire enemy exiles father favour fleet Foot Companions friends Gaugamela gods Greece Greek Greek cities Hamadan Hephaistion Heracles hero Hindu Kush historians Homeric honour horsemen horses hundred Indian Indus infantry Iran Iranian king's known land later Lyncestian Macedonian Makran mercenaries miles mountains murder native Nearchus never nomads numbers officers Olympias once ordered oriental Oxus palace Parmenion past Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian king Pharaoh Philip Philotas plans probably proskynesis Ptol Ptolemy river road Roman route royal sarissas satrap sent Shield Bearers ships Siwah Sogdian story Susa temple tribes troops Tyre victory wrote Zeus