Dr Adrian Goldsworthy

Even a big place like Halicarnassus will fall to him.

And that then is something that everybody's got to bear in mind.

So it's a mixture of sometimes where there are Persian garrisons, often of mercenary troops, but that will fight, or the locals trying to make that calculation, what's best for me short term, but particularly long term.

How do I come through this?

Still in power, still prosperous.

But it's that's how the war is won.

And this is what makes the Macedonian.

It marks the man as new.

There hasn't been anything like this.

An army that's really good at battles, but really good at sieges and just doesn't stop.

It keeps on going.

The thing with fleets is they're incredibly expensive.

These are warships that are galleys rowed by very large crews for their side.

All those crews need to be paid, fed, otherwise they're not doing anything.

Alexander doesn't have the money to match the Persians.

And it's not a Persian fleet.

It's a fleet of all the Persian subjects and allies that live along the coast.

The Persians are landlubbers.

They're landlocked in the middle of there.

They don't do this.