Dan Carlin
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first heard Jul 2026
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In front of the walls was a deep moat, at least 40 feet wide, and behind them were the main city and its two citadels, which the people could retreat to and fight on if necessary."
The city's harbor, he writes, was well shielded from attack, and the Persian fleet was now riding at anchor in it.
Because Alexander had dismissed his own fleet, the defenders could ferry in supplies or even escape unhindered if need be, whereas his own supplies were starting to run out and had to be ferried in from Miletus at least two days away, end quote.
Now, the Greeks always make it sound like Persian generalships sucked, which people like Pierre Briand and whatnot would point out ways you can figure out sort of that it didn't.
But they have no problem, the Greek authors, that is, praising other Greeks.
And that's why you get a chance to see them openly talk about the quality of generalship that Alexander's going to face here in the siege of Halicarnassus is, you know, really coming up against Memnon.
who was not in control at the Battle of the Granicus, but is in control here.
And the combination of this guy who was a fine enough general to sort of get the better of Parmenio's beachhead force, you know, when Alexander's dad was first landing on the Persian coast, he was facing Memnon.
This guy is not a kid like Alexander, doesn't have Alexander's
you know genius but he's not a kid he's a hard-bitten very experienced veteran whose brother by the way is also a general or was also a general he's going to be formidable and he's got a lot of mercenaries with him who are professional fighters who do this for a living and who know because they've watched what alexander did the granicus they know what the you know league of the greeks says happens to people that i mean they know what's going to happen they're desperate too
And they don't have to face the scary Macedonian pike phalanx that Philip Alexander's dad designed specifically to destroy units of hoplites.
They don't have to fight that in the field.
They get to have a great equalizer and fight over rubble, broken ground, and in places where this becomes a much wide-open...
fluid affair or where it's just crowds trying to find gaps I mean this benefits the mercenaries in a way that they would have fully understood this is their best chance to do something against Alexander
And when Alexander I shows up outside of Halicarnassus, he doesn't have a siege stuff with him.
That's actually coming with one of those 20 or so ships that are, you know, left to him.
And you hope the Persian fleet doesn't intercept those.
And he tries to take a little... I had to look this up.
It's a little port city, like about 10 miles from Halicarnassus itself.
He thought if he could take that, then we could just use that as a place to land the siege engines.
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