Alexander the Great: Speeches and Quotes

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  • Soldier of Macedon
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 13670

    #16
    Furious at the people of Tyre (modern Lebanon) for refusing to submit to the Macedonian army, Alexander said to them:
    You think nothing of this land army, because of your confidence in your position, living as you do on an island, but I am soon going to show you that you are on the mainland. And you can be sure that I shall either enter your city or storm it.
    Curtius Rufus, Book 4, 2, 5.

    And storm it he did. The Macedonians built an artificial bridge from the mainland to the island and after several months managed to finally sack the city.
    In the name of the blood and the sun, the dagger and the gun, Christ protect this soldier, a lion and a Macedonian.

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