Sieges, Victories and the Eastern Mediterranean Coast

After having captured Syria and Phoenicia and more importantly, the inland Phoenician city of Tyre that had put up a fight with its walls that eventually fell due to determination of Alexander and his forces in 332 B.C., Alexander and his forces headed south toward Egypt. Unfortunately, when Alexander came near the city of Gaza, he was opposed and its city walls would not let him and his forces in. Again, just like in Tyre, the city of Gaza endured a siege where many of it’s and Alexander’s people were killed. Then, after two moths of siege, Gaza finally fell to Alexander. More importantly, with the fall of Gaza, Alexander now found the whole Eastern Mediterranean coast in the palm of his hands and was the sole ruler over this region with no one standing in his way. Even better, not only was Alexander the unchallenged ruler of this region, but he could now set his eyes on other places to conquer in order to expand his empire even further.