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

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EUMENES AND ANTIGONUS. 669From now on, with a few brilliant exceptions, <strong>the</strong> decadence<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>art</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>war</strong> in Greece was quick <strong>and</strong> certain.Not untilHannibal, whose Greek education gave him access to <strong>the</strong>record <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'s deeds, <strong>and</strong> whose splendid intellectenabled him to digest <strong>the</strong>m, could rescue <strong>the</strong> <strong>art</strong> <strong>from</strong> oblivion<strong>and</strong> teach <strong>the</strong> Romans how to make <strong>war</strong>, was anythinglike <strong>the</strong> method or skill <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> to be seen. * From <strong>the</strong>end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth century B. c, <strong>the</strong> <strong>art</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>war</strong> disappearsinGreece, to reappear in Italy under <strong>the</strong> great C<strong>art</strong>haginian.Cambasene.An example <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> campaigning <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'s successorsis afforded by some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> manoeuvres <strong>of</strong> Antigonus <strong>and</strong>Eumenes in Asia. To<strong>war</strong>ds <strong>the</strong> close <strong>of</strong> 318 B. C, when <strong>the</strong>season was at h<strong>and</strong> for both to seek winter-qu<strong>art</strong>ers, <strong>the</strong>irarmies lay encamped not farap<strong>art</strong>, <strong>and</strong> separated only by amountain torrent <strong>and</strong> some ravines.The exact locality is notknown. The entire region had been so devastated that <strong>the</strong>troops were suffering for both food <strong>and</strong> forage. Eumeneshad ascertained by spies whom he kept actively at work thatAntigonus was proposing to break up <strong>the</strong> succeeding night

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