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

THE DEFILE TURNED. 397for a passage through their defiles, headed by Madates, sentword to Alexander that he could not march over their mountainsinto Persis, without paying the same tribute which thelate monarch had been wont to pay.These mountains are to-day equally full of brigands, asintractable now as then. Alexander received their ambassadorswith courtesy, and sent them back with word to be atALtlfANOER'S ROUTE^.V^/,•>•)Uxian Campaign.the entrance of their passes on a given day, when he woiddcome with toll in his hand, and they should receive their justdue. The Uxians naturally expected Alexander by the usualroad, and he did in fact dispatch the bulk of the army thatway. But having ascertained that there was another but verydifficult road, he took his royal body-guards, the hypaspists,and eight thousand other troops, and marched at night withgreat toil, and led by native Susian guides, over mountainroads, to a position near by the Uxian villages.The Uxians had built walls across the defile which theyproposed to hold. The king dispatched Craterus by a circuitto occupy high ground to which the barbarians would beapt to retire if he could drive them from the wall. At daylightthe next morning the king fell suddenly and unexpect-