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

572 A WAGON FORT.Turning back upon his course, Alexander marched againstthese confederates, and on the way, two days from the Hydraotiscrossing, he passed through the city of the Adraisteans,Pimprama by name, which surrendered to him at his approach.Having in three days more, by recrossing the Hydraotis,reached Sangala, he found the barbarians drawn upon a hill in front of the city, with their wagons forming atriple line of defenses around them. The hill appears tohave been precipitous on two sides, but approachable on thefront, which commanded the entire surrounding country.The city was also on a hill standing sharply up out of theplain, and on its rear was protected by a lake or piece oflow wet ground ofsome extent but no great depth.Sangala.Alexander at once recognized that a difficult problem laybefore him, and that he had not been misinformed as to thewarlike qualities of these freedom-loving Indians. But healso recognized that he must not hesitate, but impose on theIndians by immediate attack, if he expected respectful submissionwhen he had beaten them. He sent out the horse-