A notable victory, won at Karkar on the Middle Orontes over an army which included contingents from most of the south Semitic states-one came, for example, from Israel, where Ahab was now king,-opened a way towards the Aramaean capital; but it was not till twelve years later that the Great King actually attacked Damascus.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Eastern Asia Minor, that is Cappadocia, Pontus and Armenia, he left alone, and its contingents would still be arrayed on the Persian side in both the great battles to come.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Had he and his brother been put in charge of the Irish Nationalist contingents, and an Ulster man, or men, been put in a corresponding position over the Irish Protestant contingents, all might have gone well.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn