Dan Carlin
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And Arian has this great story about how Alexander finds out from some of the loyalists in the city.
Remember, there's all these different political factions and some of them favor Alexander.
He hears that there's a plot, you know, show up with the army and the city will, you know, come over to you.
So he comes at night with a, you know, picked force, but it sounds like it was pretty large.
Falangites, cavalry, the whole thing.
Shows up in the middle of the night expecting the city to come over to him and finds the walls all lined with troops and they're all bristling with spears and they're all ready.
Being Alexander, he attacks it anyway, brings down a tower or two, we're told, before being pelted with so many missiles and stones that they decide to back off and wait for the siege engines to show up.
Once they do, this siege kicks into a different gear.
And as we have talked about already, Alexander's dad invented a secret weapon when it comes to winning conflicts, and it is the siege train.
He has engineers, a staff of them.
I've seen them called an R&D staff of people who've actually invented new weapons to be used in sieges.
People who would show up at something like this Halicarnassus siege and look at that as a challenge.
from a military history standpoint someone like yours truly can't help but notice that what makes this halicarnassus siege uh seems somewhat different to me is the fact that both sides are basically going to be employing artillery against each other because you only start seeing this happen anyway in like right around 400 390s in the greek world anyway
things like bolt shooters and stuff and and you get different kinds of catapults torsion instead of tension i mean all sorts of different things that really date from recent history here and now all of a sudden here we have a battle where they're going to have them on both sides shooting at each other and they're going to be using the towers
quick little recap of how siege warfare goes for those who may not know we mentioned that walls are basically ubiquitous right going back to like prehistory well if you're in prehistory and you want to take a walled town how do you do it well the way that was the tried and true and easiest way is you just surround it and starve everyone out or you build some something that acts as a ladder or a ladder to you know try to storm the walls or
Sometime in prehistory, somebody figured out sapping, where you dig out the soil underneath the walls and create sort of a vacuum that the stone can then collapse down into, bringing down the walls.
Sometime in prehistory, you get the battering ram, and we all know what that is.
by the Assyrian time period at the latest, because you can see it on the carved reliefs in 1900 BCE.
They're using towers and engines of one sort or another.
And the famous Trojan horse from the Iliad may be an allusion to something like a siege tower.
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