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THE BATTLE OF MARATHON While the council of war was being held, a youth named Philippides was on his way to Sparta to beg the citizens to hasten to the help of their country. Philippides was sometime
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THE BATTLE OF MARATHON While the council of war was being held, a youth named Philippides was on his way to Sparta to beg the citizens to hasten to the help of their country. Philippides was sometime
DEMOSTHENES IN THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON When Alexander set out on his great expedition to Asia, Demosthenes was living i…
THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER In the autumn of 325 B.C. Alexander began to march through the desert of Gedrosia on his way t…
ALEXANDER IS WOUNDED Alexander determined to begin the homeward journey by sailing down the Hydaspes to the Indus in o…
PORUS AND HIS ELEPHANT The Macedonians had now for some time been longing to march homeward rather than into new and u…
ALEXANDER SLAYS HIS FOSTER-BROTHER Early in 330 B.C. Alexander left Persepolis to go in search of Darius. After a lon…
ALEXANDER BURNS PERSEPOLIS The battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. decided the fate of the Persian empire. Darius was no …
THE BATTLE OF GAUGAMELA It was now almost two years since the battle of Issus, and Alexander determined once more to m…
TYRE IS STORMED BY ALEXANDER Alexander did not cross the Euphrates in search of Darius. He knew that the great king co…
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