古德明英语军事小故事：他 不 是 帕 马 尼 奥(中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。他 不 是 帕 马 尼 奥
in 336 bc, alexander the great succeeded his father as king of macedonia and went on to execute his father's plans for freeing the greeks of asia minor from persian rule. he invaded the persian empire with 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, defeating the persian king darius Ⅲ at the battle of issus.
darius wrote to alexander, asking him to take ten thousand talents for the ransom of all those prisoners he had in his hands, and for all the countries and signories on the east side of the river euphrates, and one of his daughters also in marriage, so that he might be his kinsman.
alexander imparted this to his council. among them parmenio said, "if i were alexander, i would accept this offer."
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