nd is master of the keys of Greece.
M715 Lamentations of Demosthenes.
M716 Philip's continued encroachments. His insatiate ambition.
M717 Athens at last aroused by Demosthenes. Siege of Perinthus. Philip
withdraws from Byzantium.
M718 Another sacred war. Ruinous to Grecian liberties.
M719 Alliance of Thebes and Athens. Renewed military preparations of
Philip.
M720 Battle of Chaeronea. Its decisive character. Macedonian phalanx.
M721 Desperate measures of Athens.
M722 Fall of Thebes.
M723 Philip invades the Peloponnesus. Collects a large force against the
Persians.
M724 Death of Philip.
M725 Alexander. Character of Philip.
M726 Alexander the Great. Sent by Providence to do a great work.
M727 Which was prepared by his father. Extent of the Persian empire. The
accumulation of riches in the royal cities.
M728 Philip had aspired to overturn the empire. Knowing its internal
weakness.
M729 But this work is reserved for Alexander. Who was the conqueror of
the Oriental world? What constituted his military genius.
M730 It was his passion to conquer, not reconstruct.
M731 His early history. His conquest of the Grecian States.
M732 He annihilates the Theban power. Moral effect of his merciless
severity. He is master of Greece.
M733 Prepares to invade Persia.
M734 He marshals his forces in Asia. His phalanx and the armor of his
troops.
M735 His generals.
M736 Alexander is unobstructed in crossing the Hellespont. Error of the
Persians. Battle of the Granicus. Alexander dispenses with his
fleet. Fall of Miletus.
M737 The siege of Halicarnassus. Conquest of Asia Minor.
M738 The Persians resolve on offensive operations.
M739 Neglect to guard the mountain passes. Which Alexander passes through
unobstructed. Infatuation and errors of the Persians. The Persians
advance to Issus.
M740 The great and decisive battle of Issus.
M741 The mistakes of the Persians, and the cowardice of Darius.
M742 Important consequences of the battle.
M743 The flight and inaction of Darius.
M744 The siege of Tyre. Its fall.
M745 Offer of Darius. Rejected by Alexander.
M746 Who conquers Egypt.
M747 Founding of Alexandria.
M748 Alexander marches to the Euphrates.
M749 Marshalling of the armies at Arbela.
M750 Utter discomfiture of Darius. His inglorious flight. The battle of
Arbela a death-blow to Persia. Military genius of the conqueror.