Excerpt from The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Vol. 7 of 8 He not only committed a great error in drawing his forces out of those laces at a time when they were most necessary in them, did it in so preci itete a manner, that: his troops left all the ammunition an provisions (of both ivhich he had laid up very considerable quantities) behind them in those cities. By this means, when the Romans en tered them, they found ammunition and provisions in such great plenty, that they seemed to have been prepared ex pressly for the med their army and, at the same time, the passage of the Hellespont was so open, that over their army without the least opposition, part wherethe enemy might have disputed it with them to the test advantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.