Why 9 in 10 Defenders Died Holding This Island — Tyre, 332 BC

In 332 BC, nine in ten defenders of Tyre died behind walls 150 feet high — and Alexander reached them by building a road through the open sea. For more than two thousand years the island fortress of Tyre had stood half a mile off the coast of Lebanon, its seaward walls rising straight from the Mediterranean. Nebuchadnezzar besieged it for thirteen years and walked away with nothing. Then a 24-year-old Macedonian king, fresh from Issus, did something no conqueror had attempted: he ordered a half-mile causeway built across the seabed — and turned an impregnable island into a peninsula you can still walk today. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 — The city that believed it could not be touched 7:48 — Why Alexander couldn't walk away like Nebuchadnezzar 12:01 — The half-mile road across the open sea 16:07 — The moment the mole became a death trap 19:18 — How he got 200 warships overnight 25:31 — The breach in a wall that touched the sky 28:05 — The reckoning: why he made an example of Tyre 29:28 — The casualty arithmetic — what happened to 30,000 ⚠️ DISCLAIMER This video is for educational purposes only. The ancient accounts of Tyre survive mainly through Arrian and Quintus Curtius Rufus, writing centuries after the events; reported figures should be read as the sources record them, not as a modern census. Where the numbers are disputed, that is noted in the narration. Tags: siege of tyre, alexander the great, tyre 332 BC, ancient siege warfare, alexander the great siege, macedonian army, the causeway of tyre, alexander mole, ancient military history, phoenician city tyre, nebuchadnezzar tyre, battle of tyre, persian wars, issus, arrian, quintus curtius rufus, ancient engineering, military history documentary, impregnable fortress, war room files #AncientHistory #SiegeOfTyre #MilitaryHistory