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Alexander was the focus of my studies for a long time. His men did love him, and when he wanted to invade India his min would have followed not for much longer but they would have. But marching some 150,000 men some 3,000 miles from home you have to give them some hope of returning home. Alexander is commonly known for his conquest, but his goal was nothing of the sort. His goal was to bring peace to Greece. This he did, by uniting (his father really did most of this but he took the final step) Greece, and then taking the Army out of Greece. What happened after that point was a bonus. Politically Alexander was not as Great as his father, Philip, but he was by no means a poor politician. He captured all of the Phoenician cities with one siege. Tyre was destroyed in that siege but none of the other cities would dare resist his rule after that. Alexander

That is a good point, and I agree. But I still don

Oh thank you for clearing that up, I was mistaken. I wonder then why I thought he was captured in Spain

You may be right, its been a while now and I a ma bit rusty on my Punic war info, but I was sure Scipio encountered and defeated Hannibal while he was rushing to obey the orders of Carthage and defend it, and I was sure he met Scipio for battle in Spain, lost and was executed

Why did Rome take so long to beat some enemies? Simple answer really, Romans lacked intelligent leaders. The whole military structure made it almost impossible for a competent leader to do anything with his ability. He was always contradicted by other people who didn

As far as roman generals go, it

Forgive me; it has been a while now since I read up on Caesar

Hey people, nice to meet you, my name is Jon, people call me Jet. Go figure