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

230 ALEXANDER.59. Antigenes, commanding an infantry brigade.60. Cassander, commanding an infantry brigade.61. Alexander, son of Aeropus, the Lyncestian, commanding Thessalianhorse, vice Galas.62. Erigyius, commanding Greek allied cavalry.63. Siuimias, commanding infantry brigade.64. Artabazus, commanding Darius' Greek mercenaries, later with Alexander.65. Kearchus, an infantry officer and later the distinguished admiral.66. Eumenes, the secretary.67. Diades, the engineer.68. Laomedon, provost marshal.Others there were but of lesser importance. Some of theabove generals are constantly mentioned in all accounts ofAlexander's campaigns. They usually retained their commands,as given, but wounds, death, detail on other service,promotion, and sometimes unbecoming conduct, wroughtchanges.At the head of these generals, and in a sense which nocaptain has ever since reached, stood Alexander, the king,the master, the first and in every respect the leader of hisarmy ; its pattern, its hardest worked, most untiring, mostenergetic, bravest, most splendid member.What he did, andthe way in which he did it, roused the emulation of his lieutenantsto an unexampled pitch. With Alexander it wasnever " Go " ! but " Come "! The hardest task he invariablyselected for his own personal performance. The greatestdanger he always entered first. Despite his better armor, hecould show more wounds than the most reckless of his men.None could vie with him in courage, bodily strength, expertuse of arms, or endurance. And in every detail of the service,from hurling the Agrianian javelin to manoeuvring thephalanx, from the sarissa-drill of the heavy pezetserus to thesupreme command of the army, he stood absolutely without