The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-09
ANCIENT HISTORY
When Egypt Was Threatened
and All Seemed to
be Over.
KING SENT A SUBSTITUTE

Amaxis Employed Foreigner 60
Lead His Troops and Lost Out
The Persian General Worked Upon
Egyptian Superstition and Captur-
ed q Great City without the For
uaality OF q BattIe-Peaoe Messen-
gers Torn To- Pieces at Memphis
Cruelty That Was Simply As
founding.
Bilkinsviile. =. c.. March 6. 1911.
Correspondence of The Caucasian
Enterprise.
yometnin' over 500 year before
Christ the king ov Egypt learned
the Persian King wuz maxim vast
movements, In order to enter Egypt.
an get possession ov hits dominions.
The reasons for this invasion must
have been known at the time but no
historian hez bin able to git at the
bottom ov hit. Possibly hit wuZ due
TO ambition, or hit may hev bin for
purposes ov revenge. One story liz to
the effect that the king ov Egypt re-
fused to send hiZ daughter to be
numbered among the women In the
household ov the Persian king, send
an Nietitis, the daughter ov the for
mer king instead. Soon thereafter
the Persian king learned that this
had been done and he got warm un-
der the collar. The Egyptian ruler
probably did not think that he would
be caught up with in this little game
and wuz unprepared for war. But
Cambyses, the Persian king, had
blood in hiZ eye. Amasis, the Egyp-
tian ruler, employed Phanes, fam
Gus Greek officer, to assist him in
conductin' the war; in fact he actu-
ally gave the Greek supreme COM
mand. Naturally he should hev ex-
pected a whippin', though Persia
wuz tenth-class country. Soldiers
seldom do their best fitin' when un-
der the command of foreigner. But
Egypt wuZ seriously handicapped
anyway; IL yet, for that matter. But
before hit wuz anvil over Planes de-
serted the Egyptian ruler and went
to Persia and fought against Egypt.
Polycrates, the sovereign ov Samos,
had been an ally ov Amasis, the
Egyptian King. Polycrates also de-
serted and went to the Persian army.
This left Egypt with nothin' but Off
GERS ov little note an less ability. To
add to hit awl, the Egyptian king
died and thus escaped the disaster
about to visit hiz country.
In 525 B. G. Psammeutius, a son
-ov Amasis, became king. He had
scarcely taken hiz seat on the throne,
when Cambysis, the Persian general,
invaded Egypt. The new king bur-
ried hiz preparations for war an
Persia stated hit by layin' siege to
the city ov Potassium. Known that
the Egyptians were very supersti-
fiouss the Persian general caused a
animals to be placed in front ov hiz
army an az the Egyptians then re-
garded awl such animals az sacred
they refused 10 fight an the Persian
army entered Potassium without los
in man.
BY this time Psammeutitus had
gotten hiz army to Potassium an the
Greeks who had agreed to assist him
in the war, to revenge the detection
oy Planes, the Greek general who
had agreed to lead their army, but
who had gone over to the Persians,
plain false to the Greeks in the
Egyptian army az we'll az to the gov
eminent ov Egypt, managed to Sc
cure Gen. Planes children an they
put the children to death in full
sight ov their father, the two armies
bein' camped close together; that ov
course bein' before the day ov gun
powder and guns an armies natur-
ally had to engage in hand to hand
conflicts, and hit would hev bin use
less for two opposin' armies to hev
put much distance between, for the
ancients did not believe in takin
much exercise; in fact, they were
partial to the rest cure.
Ov course, the murder ov Planes
children wuz unjustifiable, for they
could hev had nothin' to do with lay.
In the false, deceptive course pur.
sued by General Planes. But some
ov the ancients were politicians oy
the lowest order and probably be
1onged to the 'tKu-Klux" or tRed
Shirt" fraternities, either ov which
wuZ the limit.
But the acts ov the Egyptians
caused the disaster ov war to become
greater than ever, for the Persians
were so thoroughly Disguised al
what they had witnessed, an bein
exceedingly angry, they proceeded te
give the Egyptians genteel thrash
IN an when the Egyptian army re.
treated, the Persians pursued them