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He also added to his kingdom Gadara, Hippos, and Samaria; and, besides those, the maritime cities, Gaza, and Anthedon, and Joppa, and Strato's Tower.
Gaza is upon the verge of the Desert, to which it stands in the same relation as a seaport to the sea. These preparations kept me in the town for some days. Dthemetri had to make the arrangements for my journey, and in order to arm himself with sufficient authority for doing all that was required, he found it necessary to put himself in communication with the Governor.
We were using the old Cairo 'road, and as far as I could see not an enemy shell reached it, though when our troops were in the town of Gaza there were many crumps and woolly bears to disturb the new occupation. But all went swimmingly.
'After all, I do not know whether the army will march at all. You have been in Syria? I answered, in the affirmative, a question which had often been addressed to me. 'Do you think I could march as far as Gaza? inquired Ibrahim, with a smile. This was a question of mockery. It was like asking whether the Life Guards could take Windsor.
Great dumps of ammunition had been formed by the enemy close to the guns, and these, for safety and concealment, had been placed in deep dug-outs. On the evening of the 27th October, a great thunderstorm burst over Gaza, causing the enemy considerable damage, flooding the dug-outs, and presumably damping the fuses and ruining their ammunition.
Should he fail to do that there was scarcely a possibility of the Turks holding us up till we got to the Jaffa-Jerusalem road, though between Gaza and that metalled highway there were many points of strength from which they could fight delaying actions.
When General Allenby had broken through the Gaza line the Turks in Jerusalem despaired of saving the City.
'It will scarcely buy camels for Sheikh Salem's widow, said Eva. 'I will manage that, said Fakredeen. 'The great Sheikh has camels enough, and I will give him arms in exchange. 'Arms at Canobia will not reach the stony wilderness. 'No; but I have got arms nearer at hand; that is, my friend, my friend whom I am going to meet at Gaza, has some; enough, and to spare.
Once the men of Gaza tried to kill him when he was within their city, but he rose at midnight and took the city gates, with its posts and bar, and carried them away on his shoulders to the top of the hill. Again the Philistine lords had promised a great deal of money to a woman, if she would get Samson to tell her what made him so strong, so she begged him to tell her.
He then ordered holes to be made through the heels of his unhappy captive, and, passing a rope through them, had the body fastened to a chariot, and dragged about the city till no life remained. Alexander found many rich treasures in Gaza. He sent a large part of them to his mother Olympias, whom he had left in Macedon.
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