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

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ICA SHARP FIGHT. 279<strong>and</strong> determination. Sagalassus lay at <strong>the</strong> foot <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> highestterrace <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mountains, <strong>and</strong> beyond it opened <strong>the</strong> upl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong>Phrygia. The king found this people drawn up on <strong>the</strong> rockson <strong>the</strong> south front <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir city, which rocks formed, as itwere, a natural ramp<strong>art</strong>. And here, too, a considerable force<strong>of</strong> Termessians had joined <strong>the</strong>m to oppose <strong>the</strong> Macedonianadvance. <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> could make no use <strong>of</strong> his cavalry onthis rugged ground, but he prepared at once to assault <strong>the</strong>position with his foot. He drew up <strong>the</strong>se troops with <strong>the</strong>shield-bearingguards under his own comm<strong>and</strong> on <strong>the</strong> right,<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> phalangites on <strong>the</strong> left, each brigade placed accordingto <strong>the</strong> day's roster, <strong>the</strong> whole under Lyncestian Amyntas,son <strong>of</strong> Arrhaboeus, <strong>and</strong> so marshaled as that each comm<strong>and</strong>er<strong>of</strong> rank should have an occasion to display his personal valor.The archers <strong>and</strong> Agrianians covered <strong>the</strong> right, <strong>the</strong> Thracianacontists, under Sitalces, <strong>the</strong> left. The light troops in front'4 \\I'll, '

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