- Marckworth Forest (wta.org)
Marckworth Forest offers some wonderful walking among forest, marshes, and rumpled rocky hills, as long as you’re ok doing your own routefinding on logging roads. It’s a quiet, little known and infrequently visited spot, less than an hour’s drive from Seattle.
- Siege of Tyre (332 BC) (Wikipedia)
The siege of Tyre was orchestrated by Alexander the Great in 332 BC during his campaigns against the Persians. The Macedonian army was unable to capture the city, which was a strategic coastal base on the Mediterranean Sea, through conventional means because it was on an island and had walls right up to the sea. Alexander responded to this problem by first blockading and besieging Tyre for seven months, and then by building a causeway and placing siege towers with catapults built on top at the end after his soldiers discovered that they could not extend it any further due to a steep drop under the surface of the water. This allowed him to breach the fortifications.
