Dan Carlin
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first heard Jul 2026
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Now, somebody else might have allowed the 300 or so mercenaries that had gotten onto a very, very difficult to attack island to just sit there and rot.
But Alexander, being Alexander, has got to take it.
And he takes, according to Arian, his boats with ladders sort of strapped to them so that they could swing the ladders onto the rocky, sheer sides of these islands to kill the last 300 mercenaries on there before Alexander decides they've been very brave.
and maybe he should just offer to bring them into his army.
The people of Miletus show up carrying olive branches, the traditional token of supplication.
They're basically begging for their lives.
They have some things working in their favor, though, as several of the modern historians point out.
The fact that, as we said, Miletus was so much a part of the reasons for this war, and their suffering against the Persians have been so played up over the years that...
Well, they were forgiven.
Alexander basically said, you're okay.
They kill all the defenders, though.
Did a deep dive trying to figure out how he did that.
What's the mechanism for Alexander doing something like that?
And I couldn't find anything good.
The Mongols supposedly, as we've said before, had a system.
Every trooper gets several people whose job it is to kill, right?
So maybe you give 30,000 men 12 people each and it's a rather efficient affair.
And then you count the years afterwards to make sure it was all done.
What I looked up seemed to suggest that maybe Alexander just used his army as a giant sort of executing force.
mechanism cornered enemy troops in a part of town or something and then just attack them from all sides no good answers but he's going to do this a lot and so wondering you know exactly how the physics of a giant mass killing occurred when alexander did it is something well that we'll wonder about again in the future bottom line though is he takes meletus and
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