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whole army, roused by the clangor of the trumpets, being in 

 motion to oppose their flight, the rest hurried precipitately back 

 into the city, resolved either by one desperate effort to raise the siege 

 or sell their lives in this last extremity as dear as possible. Each 

 party now, returning to the contest, fought with redoubled fury ; 

 but the miners, being at length successful in sapping the walls, a 

 breach was made in them, through which the Macedonians poured 

 with an impetuosity that bore down all opposition. Others, apply r 

 ing the scaling-ladders, mounted the wall in places where no breach 

 was effected, on which and the bastions a desperate conflict was 

 for a long time sustained ; but perseverance on the part of the 

 besiegers rendered them finally triumphant. The works being thus 

 carried by storm, and the city in possession of the Greeks, a 

 dreadful and undistinguishing massacre commenced, and Sangala 

 was deluged with the blood of its unfortunate citizens. When about 

 seventeen thousand Indians were put to death, Alexander ordered 

 the slaughter to cease, and the rest, to the enormous amount of 

 seventy thousand, who had pressed into that city, were taken pri- 

 soners, together with a vast booty, including three hundred chariots 

 of war and five hundred horse. The loss of the Macedonians, 

 killed at this important siege, was comparatively small, not exceed- 

 ing one hundred men ; but the number of wounded was greater than 

 on any former occasion, for Arrian states it at twelve hundred, 

 among Avhom were Lysimachus and other commanders of the first 

 distinction for talents and valour*. 



* Arrian, lib. v. cap. 25. Curtius, lib. ix. cap. 1. But Curtius gives a very confused and 

 imperfect account of this affair, and mentions not even the name of the city, for which, not- 

 withstanding the marked circumstances of the hill and the lake, no particular scite is assigned 

 in the Modern Geography of India, nor has any corresponding name been found in the 

 Sanscreet Vocabulary. 



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