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Identifier: alexanderhistory00dodg Title: Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from 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 and Company
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Text Appearing After Image: GATES Gordium to Araanus. human ability to take. In many places but four men canmarch abreast between the perpendicular walls of stone. Al-exander was unable, without a fleet, to resort to Cyrus turn-ing manoeuvre. The Persians, did they but know it, had the CAPTURE OF TARSUS. 291 power to block his path. He might possibly have turned thedefile by way of Laranda, from which place were passes intowestern or Hugged Cilicia. But this was a difficult and dan-gerous route, fo be avoided by all means if possible, and it isfar from improbable that these passes were not then knownto any but the native barbarians. But Arsames, satrap of Cilicia^Darius chief officer at thispoint, made no preparation to hold these Gates. He hadprobably received no specific orders on the subject. Whenthe Macedonian army arrived in the vicinity, the Gates werefound to be beset by but a slender force. Leaving Parmenioin camp with the heavy troops, Alexander took the shield-bearing guards, archers, and Agrianians, a
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