Dan Carlin
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The crews would camp and eat and find water then.
So if the Persian fleet, for example, wants to leave from Egypt to operate, you know, in the area that's now the Turkish coast, it can't go from Egypt to there.
It's going to go point to point to point along the coastline all the way up, camping every night, you know, sort of at sundown.
If you take away those areas where they can camp, well, they have to go farther and farther away, right?
If Alexander's going to send forces to take all the possible areas that would be a good landing site for the Persian fleet, they have to camp farther away.
And the range between this new camp, away from Alexander's troops, and where you want that fleet, maybe right outside this city Alexander's trying to attack, is too far.
Can't get to and back to the base in time.
I mean, he's basically curtailed their available space.
area of operations.
And this is profoundly demoralizing to the defenders in the city when they see it.
And Alexander seems to have very little trouble with this city.
If you go read a timeline of his career, the timeline always makes it sound like this siege lasted something like a month.
But when you dive deep into it, you realize, well, that's an assumption sort of made by the fact that it takes a month out of Alexander's
you know sort of calendar here but that doesn't mean the siege itself did and you get a real sense when you read the sources that once he brought up the siege engines it didn't take very long at all and he's got all the good ones he's got stone throwers he's got rams he's got under miners he's got the towers where you can shoot down on the walls it doesn't seem like it's going to take very long
Arian and Diodorus both have accounts.
Diodorus says Memnon was there, so Alexander had to attack the city.
Arian doesn't mention Memnon at all.
but says that, well, why don't we just quote the Martin Hammond translation of Arian and let the ancient writer explain it for himself, and he says, quote, "'He,' meaning Alexander, "'personally supervised the application of siege engines to the walls, "'and after quickly demolishing a section of wall "'and weakening a longer stretch, "'he brought up his army, "'ready to go over where the wall had been broken down "'or shaken loose.'
all this was shadowed by the persians from he's talking about the fleet right that's now farther away because alexander's forces captured all the good places to land who could be little more than spectators of the siege of their friends and allies end quote then he says that the macedonian admiral brings the fleet up close to the harbor when the people of melita see this it sort of breaks their spirit and they start running
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