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To: SunkenCiv

LOL, Alexander's shoes would be hard ones to fill. Not even Pompey could measure up!


12 posted on 09/22/2006 5:34:05 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: Ciexyz

Pompey, metaphorically, that guy was a tick to a dog. Would be nice to have his memoirs of the other side of the civil war though. :')

I watch the DVD of Michael Wood's "Footsteps of Alexander" and am just astounded by one thing in particular -- after a long winter healing from wounds and receiving massive reinforcements from Greece (financed of course by the captured Persian treasury, apparently the largest hoard ever captured by a conquering entity), the new year's campaign consisted of five armies of 50,000 each, crushing everything in their path -- in Central Asia.


13 posted on 09/22/2006 8:58:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 16, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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