WORLD CONQUEROR 3 GENERALS LIST FULL
So it was full of various resources and manpower.Ĭaesar is given far less credit than he deserves for being, as was Alexander, a fighting General, with the ability to insert himself into a battle and inspire his troops with acts of physical skill and bravado. But Persians didn't face any such colossal war before the conquest of Alexander as it was the only empire of its time in the then known world and had no rival of equal size. It opened the way for the conquests of Khalid Bin. The Byzantine and Sassanid empire fought a 26 year long war(from 602 AD to 628 AD) just before the start of the Islamic conquest and severely bleeded each other of manpower and other resources. The Persian Achaemenid empire ruled most of the lands of later Sassanid and Byzantine empires alone. And also Alexander faced one unified Empire Rather than two rival infighting empires(Persian Sassanid and Byzantine) unlike Khalid Bin. At that time Alexander's domain was of the size of Nicaragua and the Persian Achaemenid empire was as large as mainland USA(excluding the overseas territories like Alaska, Hawaii etc.) The Persian empire could raise an army of almost a million men and had a huge navy in the Mediterranean Sea. When he started his campaign against the Persian empire in 334 bc with just 30,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry who could imagine that he would soon conquer the whole of the Persian Empire(The only one super power of the world at that time). It is a prove that Alexander was a great problem solver and ultimate innovator in military science. And yet Alexander did this by building a causeway through the sea. It was thought to be impossible to take the city without having a strong navy. Didn't stand a chance, no matter how good he was.Īlexander had no navy and yet he conquered the city of Tyre in Lebanon which situated on a Island half a mile away from the coast and which was surrounded fully by a city wall and had a strong navy. He then returned to Carthage with the Carthaginians of his army, which as a small portion of his army against the might of Rome. Hannibal wasn't getting into Rome period. The only reason he didn't conquer Rome was the Romans melted the bronze off their temples, turned it into weapons and created three new legions which would have made an assault on Rome suicide.
In fact the Allie in WWII used it to defeat Rommel in Africa. Then at the battle of Cannae he not only defeated a vastly superior army in both number and equipment, but he invented the pincer offensive which is still used today.
He marched through the alps to Italy where he had never been but consistently used the weather to is advantage as well as terrain. He lead one of the first multi-national armies, consisting of Iberians, Celts, Numidians, and Carthaginians none of whom even speak the same language as the other culture.
Hannibal was drastically outnumbers through his entire campaign fight land battles which was Rome wanted to fight, instead of the sea battles that Carthage preferred.