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Episode 77: Artemisia and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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Artemesia's Strategic Brilliance

Artemesia was determined to capture a nearby city called Latmos, right? And so she did so using another very cunning ruse. She gathered together a great big stack of her soldiers and she had them laying ambush just near the city. Now, they're sitting there thinking, how the bloody hell is she going to empty the city?, he asks. All the people of Latmos there in there, they're all bloody tucked up cosy in their beds,. what's she going to do, how is she Going to Empty The City? He says: "She told them to wait for the city to empty itself before they then went and attacked it" It wasn't till years

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