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... Assyria beset on all sides by enemies , and gradually sinking under their convergent attacks in a series of battles and sieges even while she is yet capable of shrewd blows in her own defence . The southern provinces are the first to go ...
... Assyria beset on all sides by enemies , and gradually sinking under their convergent attacks in a series of battles and sieges even while she is yet capable of shrewd blows in her own defence . The southern provinces are the first to go ...
Page 475
... Assyria . There can be little doubt that Kyaxares , in spite of the chronicle , was the leading figure among the ... Assyrian provinces about ' Anah on the Euphrates . Most significant of all , the Assyrian king is actually able to march ...
... Assyria . There can be little doubt that Kyaxares , in spite of the chronicle , was the leading figure among the ... Assyrian provinces about ' Anah on the Euphrates . Most significant of all , the Assyrian king is actually able to march ...
Page 477
... Assyria could count . For the chronicle had already revealed , so far back as the year 616 , that Egypt , under Psammetichus I , who had so decisively shaken off the yoke of Ashurbanipal , had now actually sent an army to co - operate ...
... Assyria could count . For the chronicle had already revealed , so far back as the year 616 , that Egypt , under Psammetichus I , who had so decisively shaken off the yoke of Ashurbanipal , had now actually sent an army to co - operate ...
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