Philip made his infantry fight in a cloly packed mass, the Maian phalanx, and he trained his mounted gentlemen, the knights or panions, to fight in formation and so ied cavalry.
The master move in most of his battles and in the battles of his son Alexander was a cavalry charge.
The phalanx held the enemy infantry in front while the cavalry swept away the enemy hor on his wings and poured in on the flank and rear of his infantry.
Chariots were disabled by bowmen, who shot the hors.
With this new army Philip extended his frontiers through Thessaly to Greebsp;and the battle of Ch?ronia (338 B.C.), fought against Athens and her allies, put all Greebsp;at his feet.
At last the dream of Herodotus was bearing fruit.
A gress of all the Greek states appointed Philip captain-general of the Gr?bsp;Maian federabsp;against Persia, and in 336 B.C.
his advanbsp;guard crosd into Asia upon this long premeditated adventure.
But he never followed it.
He was assassinated; it is believed at the instigation of his queen Olympias, Alexander’s mother.
Philip made his infantry fight in a cloly packed mass, the Maian phalanx, and he trained his mounted gentlemen, the knights or panions, to fight in formation and so ied cavalry.
The master move in most of his battles and in the battles of his son Alexander was a cavalry charge.
The phalanx held the enemy infantry in front while the cavalry swept away the enemy hor on his wings and poured in on the flank and rear of his infantry.
Chariots were disabled by bowmen, who shot the hors.
With this new army Philip extended his frontiers through Thessaly to Greebsp;and the battle of Ch?ronia (338 B.C.), fought against Athens and her allies, put all Greebsp;at his feet.
At last the dream of Herodotus was bearing fruit.
A gress of all the Greek states appointed Philip captain-general of the Gr?bsp;Maian federabsp;against Persia, and in 336 B.C.
his advanbsp;guard crosd into Asia upon this long premeditated adventure.
But he never followed it.
He was assassinated; it is believed at the instigation of his queen Olympias, Alexander’s mother.