Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from ...

THE FIRST YEAR'S WORK. 217For the coming- dozen years, until Alexander's death, thehistory of Greece is practically a blank. The land of heroesbecame a mere appanage of Alexander's great empire in theEast, Internal broils and constantly recurring ebullitionsof opposition to Macedon monopolized Hellenic politics.Thus in one brief year Alexander had settled himself firmlyupon his throne, had made himself secure against his barbarianneighbors, had nullified his Grecian brethren, and couldsafely turn to the Asiatic problem which *was to be his life'swork, as it was his life's ambition. Surely a wonderful firsttwelvemonth for a monarch of twenty years. The comingweeks were full of restless business iu assembling his army,equipping his ships, and in studying out the vast problem beforehim, — the most vast ever attacked by man. The moreimportant part of his military life now begins.Alexander.(From Bust in Louvre.)