This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729 Excerpt: ...they were composed) were reduced into close and unserviceable Orders, and placed behind the Greek Mercenaries; and the Phalanx of Barbarians, and the whole Number of Darius's Forces there, is laid to have amounted to Six hundred thousand. As soon as ever Alexander law the narrow Passage open, he drew up his Horse in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729 Excerpt: ...they were composed) were reduced into close and unserviceable Orders, and placed behind the Greek Mercenaries; and the Phalanx of Barbarians, and the whole Number of Darius's Forces there, is laid to have amounted to Six hundred thousand. As soon as ever Alexander law the narrow Passage open, he drew up his Horse in Order, as well his own Royal Cohort, as the tthejsalians, and Macedonians; and those he placed on the Right Wing, near his Person. The Peloponnesians, and the rest, he dispatch'd to the Left Wing to Parmenio. When Darius had ordered his Army, the Horse which he had, before, commanded to pasi the River, he suddenly recalled, and posted the greatest part of them on the Right Wing, towards the Sea, against Parmenio; because they were of most Use there: the rest, he ordered to the Left, at the Foot of the Mountain. But when he perceived they could not be serviceable there, by reason of the Narrowness of the Place, he commanded many of them to go and strengthen their Companions on the Right Wing. Darius, observing the antient and established Rule of the Persian Monarchs, kept the main Body; the Reason of which Custom is given us by Xenopbon the Son of Gryllus. CHAP. CHAP. IX. IN ' the mean while, Alexander perceiving almost all the Persian Horse drawn up against his Left Wing, on the Sea-fhore, and considering, that only the Pehponnesian and part os the Royal Cohort of Horse, were posted there, he immediately dispatch'd the shejsalian Horse thither, with Orders that they fliould convey themselves to that Post, as secretly as they could, to prevent the Enemies from discovering their March. In their Places, on the Right Wing, he appointed those Horse which had usually made up the forlorn Hope, commanded by Pratamachus, and the P omans by Arijlon, ...
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