Part 45 (1/2)

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 acc.u.mulation 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 const.i.tuted his military genius.

M730 It was his pa.s.sion 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 un.o.bstructed in crossing the h.e.l.lespont. Error of the Persians. Battle of the Granicus. Alexander dispenses with his fleet. Fall of Miletus.

M737 The siege of Halicarna.s.sus. Conquest of Asia Minor.

M738 The Persians resolve on offensive operations.

M739 Neglect to guard the mountain pa.s.ses. Which Alexander pa.s.ses through un.o.bstructed. 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.

M751 Surrender of Babylon and Susa.

M752 The enormous treasures of the Persian Kings.

M753 Successive conquests of Alexander.

M754 He kills his friend c.l.i.tus. Agony and remorse of Alexander.

M755 He penetrates to the Indus. Porus.

M756 The soldiers of Alexander refuse to advance further to the East.

M757 He returns to Persepolis. His abandonment to pleasure.

M758 Death of Hephaestion and grief of Alexander.

M759 His entrance into Babylon. Splendor of the funeral of Hephaestion.

Death of Alexander.

M760 His boundless ambition. His death a fortunate event. Effects of his conquests.

M761 Obscurity of the early history of Rome.

M762 aeneas.

M763 Latium. Foundation of Rome.

M764 The early inhabitants. Rome founded in violence.

M765 The Sabine element of Rome.

M766 The const.i.tution.

M767 Numa Pompilius.

M768 Establishment of religion.

M769 Tullus Hostilius. The Horatii and the Curiatii.