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.
He razed Thebes to the ground years before this.
Andrew
aka a Tyre_Rant! Where was Bechtel when you need them!!!
I think the second mole didn’t quite reach the island-city when the city fell. IIRC, the city was stormed by amphibious operation. The mole was used as a base of fire by Alexander’s siege weapons.