Posted on 05/15/2007 4:39:17 PM PDT by blam
As reported in Nature Magazine
Did the great one take advantage of an existing sand bridge or did he cause one to be formed?
Isn’t this the city where Alexander built TWO causeways in order to take by siege. The first got destroyed by the defenders and then he had a 2nd larger one built?
Note, Alexander was so p.o.ed about how long it took to take the city, he ordered it plundered. Something he had not done when capturing cities before Tyre.
They had a pretty good show on this on the History channel. They showed how the Tyrians rammed a ship loaded with explosives into the first causeway and destroyed it with fire. Alexandar almost gave up at that point but then became even more resolved to take the island. The second causeway was built at an angle from the mainland to the island and protected by a fleet which Alexandar put together in order to checkmate the Tyrian fleet.
Cycles? In nature? What could cause such a thing??
He razed Thebes to the ground years before this.
Andrew
aka a Tyre_Rant! Where was Bechtel when you need them!!!
If we had a general like Alexander the entire Mideast would be a colony of America. At peace.
In ancient times, the Great ones knew it wasn’t nice to fool Mother Nature...
He was Macedonian.
His Father was Philip of Macedonia.
But incompetent Roger Highfield writes for The Telegraph (UK) :
The fact that Tyre was an island presented the Greek military commander with a serious headache
Any editor should have caught that.
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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the king of Macedonia who conquered the Persian empire and annexed it to Macedonia, is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times.
http://faq.macedonia.org/history/alexander.the.great.html
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Yes, he was Macedonian. He died in Egypt of, some believe, West Nile Virus.
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WOnderful post.
Thanks for going through the trouble of posting the detailed maps etc..
Don’t tell that to the Greeks, they get irate.
A new twist on the old story.
I think he died in Babylon.
They showed how the Tyrians rammed a ship loaded with explosives into the first causeway and destroyed it with fire.There were various flammable materials, used for Greek fire, but AFAIK there were *no* explosives available at that time.
sometimes still referred to as artillery, the catapault was the original artillery; centuries after Alexander, Roman General (and later emperor) Vespasian used such artillery to rapidly reduce the oppida in Britain.
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