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Simultaneously in another part of the city the battering ram, put to its work, brought down a considerable stretch of wall; and when the Macedonians entered through this breach and Alexander's party poured over the bridge on to the wall, the city was taken. The Tyrians, however, kept up the resistance with mutual cries of encouragement and blocked the alleys with barricades, so that all except a few were cut down fighting, in number more than seven thousand.1

1 Curtius 4.4.16 gives the total as 6000, Arrian. 2.24.4 as 8000. Justin 11.10.14 states that Tyre was taken by treachery.

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