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Often appears with: siege and fortification · unguarded wall · switch from mounted to infantry fighting · strategy and the aims of war · scaling ladders · military discipline and training · lagoras the cretan · horse aversion to camels · camel cavalry tactic · battle formation · battle and tactics
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In the siege of Sardis, Lagoras the Cretan plans to exploit an unguarded wall near the “Saw,” reasoning vultures gather there and guards leave for long parts of the day.
[Sidenote: Siege of Sardis from the end of B.C. 216 to autumn of B.C. 215.] +15.+ Round Sardis ceaseless and protracted skirmishes were taking place and fighting by night and day, both armies inventing every possible kind of plot and counterplot against each other: to describe which in detail would be as useless as it would be in the last degree wearisome. At last, when the siege had already entered upon its second …
Cyrus plans a tactic against Croesus’s cavalry at the plain in front of Sardis by placing armed men on camels so horses flee, leading the Lydians to dismount, fight on foot, and retreat into a fortress under siege.
Lydians had been taken and that Croesus had been made prisoner. Then (and not before) they ceased from their efforts, being grieved at the event as at a great calamity. 84. Now the taking of Sardis came about as follows:—When the fourteenth day came after Croesus began to be besieged, Cyrus made proclamation to his army, sending horsemen round to the several parts of it, that he would give gifts to the man who shoul…