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The Campaigns of Alexander (Anabasis Alexandri)
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How can I apply this idea: Arrian builds his history on Ptolemy and Aristobulus and labels everything else as report. His first set battle shows Alexander overruling Parmenio's caution and forcing a river crossing in person?
How can I apply this idea: Darius gave up open ground that suited his numbers because flattering advisers told him what he wanted to hear. Alexander fought him in a narrow plain where the Persian mass was useless, and Darius fled?
How can I apply this idea: Alexander besieged Tyre because he judged he could not safely go on to Egypt or Babylon with Persian sea power behind him. The siege took a mole, a fleet and repeated redesign, and ended in a massacre and mass enslavement?
