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...example, the 22-year-old Macedonian King Alexander charged with his cavalry into the ranks of Persian forces at the Granicus River in what is now Turkey. A Persian soldier clubbed Alexander with an ax, but before he could deal a second and fatal blow, the King's bodyguard killed...
What if Alexander had died at Granicus? Goodbye to all the conquests of Alexander the Great, says Princeton historian Josiah Ober. The Persian Empire would have overtaken the known world. The great promise of Hellenism would have lost its way; the growing Roman Empire would have atrophied; Judea would have remained a backwater, Jesus merely "a local religious figure," and Christianity and Judaism insignificant provincial oddities. There would have been no need for a Martin Luther, no Reformation, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Western culture...
From Alexander the Great's victory at the Granicus (334 B.C.) to Gettysburg and on to the Battle of Midway, military commanders have often been criticized for failing to "exploit the retreat"-that is, for not pressing after a beaten enemy. No such reproach could be made against Lieut. General Van Fleet and his Eighth Army last week. When the battered Chinese Reds ran out of steam in the second phase of their futile spring offensive, they acted as though Van Fleet might be ceremonious and give them a breathing spell. Instead he attacked, and when the Reds withdrew...
...magnificent that it was thought to be the tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus. The sarcophagus is nearly twelve feet long, seven high and five and a half broad, and the total weight is twenty-five tons, of which the cover weighs ten. It is all of fine Parian marble. Several French savants are now studying it at Constantinople...
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