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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... army as the one determined heir . The government , he told them , was changing only in name and Philip's example would remain in all things ; there would , however , be a brief cut in taxation , and so his father's army accepted him ...
... army as the one determined heir . The government , he told them , was changing only in name and Philip's example would remain in all things ; there would , however , be a brief cut in taxation , and so his father's army accepted him ...
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... army for training and drill , and on this army , more than any claim to vic- tory , his invincibility always depended . To modern field - marshals the Macedonian army has seemed the most enviable force in history . Its design is ...
... army for training and drill , and on this army , more than any claim to vic- tory , his invincibility always depended . To modern field - marshals the Macedonian army has seemed the most enviable force in history . Its design is ...
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... army left Balkh on Bessus's dwindling trail , a prospect tougher than they knew . They numbered scarcely 30,000 ... army : when water was brought to him in a helmet , scooped from a small desert spring , he refused to accept the ...
... army left Balkh on Bessus's dwindling trail , a prospect tougher than they knew . They numbered scarcely 30,000 ... army : when water was brought to him in a helmet , scooped from a small desert spring , he refused to accept the ...
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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