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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... Tyre on the mainland ; he was not to enter their new island city . This retort made Alexander angry and within days he had begun to demolish Old Tyre in order to use its stone and timber for an assault on New Tyre's offshore position ...
... Tyre on the mainland ; he was not to enter their new island city . This retort made Alexander angry and within days he had begun to demolish Old Tyre in order to use its stone and timber for an assault on New Tyre's offshore position ...
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... Tyre , Alexander's generalship had been good rather than great ; with a characteristic leap forward to meet a challenge , he was now to show for the first time that genius which singles him out in military history . Before settling down ...
... Tyre , Alexander's generalship had been good rather than great ; with a characteristic leap forward to meet a challenge , he was now to show for the first time that genius which singles him out in military history . Before settling down ...
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... Tyre which he himself had been responsible for sinking . Never can the god have received such a blood- stained sacrifice : ' Tyre ' , said a Macedonian historian , possibly Callis- thenes , ' had fallen in the month of July when ...
... Tyre which he himself had been responsible for sinking . Never can the god have received such a blood- stained sacrifice : ' Tyre ' , said a Macedonian historian , possibly Callis- thenes , ' had fallen in the month of July when ...
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