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Often appears with: siege of sardis · siege and fortification · military discipline and training · horse aversion to camels · camel cavalry tactic · battle formation · battle and tactics
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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…