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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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been overindulging, and prepared for the march. The king took under his personal command about twentythousand foot and three thousand horse — consisting of hypas-pists, phalanx, Macedonian cavalry, Agrianians and archers.With this force he set out by way of Aria for Bactriana, hisimmediate objective. Satibarzanes had tendered his submis-sion in Susia (modern Tus) ; and though he was one of Da-rius murderers, Alexander saw fit to continue him in chargeof his satrapy, associating with him Anaxippus, a Compan-ion, and sixty horse acontists, which he was ordered so to sta-tion as to prevent depredations by the Macedonian army inits march through Aria, as well as show a semblance of au-thority. This Alexander thought would suffice to neutralize NICANOR DIES. 437 Satibarzanes for the moment, and save causes of complaint.Alexander hoped to reach Bactria before Bessus could bejoined by any of his associates. For Bessus expected theaid of the Scythians, as well as had already many of the old
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Route from the Caspian to the Caucasus. adherents of Darius. At Susia, Nicanor, son of Parmenio,commander of the shield-bearing guards, died, much to thegrief of the whole array. Alexander was unable to delay hisadvance ; but he left Philotas behind with twenty-six hundredmen to conduct the funeral rites with becoming splendor. The plateau of Iran, as it stands to-day, has been describedas sterile plains, separated by equally sterile mountains,where the temperature ranges from 0° to 120° Fahrenheit.We know that the population was greater in Alexanders day 438 A FORCED MARCH, tlian now, and no doubt the country afforded vastly more toa marclilng army. But heat and cold must still be borne,though rations may be plenty, and the sun burned as fiercelythen as now. When the column had made a considerable part of themarch towards Bactriana, Alexander learned that Satibar-zanes, through whose satrapy he had just passed, had mas-sacred the guard under Anaxippus which had been left withhim, a

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