Alexander the Great | Biography, Empire, Death, & Facts
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OverviewLifeBeginnings of the Persian expeditionAsia Minor and the Battle of IssusConquest of the Mediterranean coast and EgyptCampaign eastward to Central AsiaInvasion of IndiaConsolidation of the empireFrom Issus Alexander marched south into Syria and Phoenicia, his object being to isolate the P…While the siege of Tyre was in progress, Darius sent a new offer: he would pay a huge ransom of 10,000 talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates. “I would accept,” Parmenio is reported to have said, “were I Alexander”; “I too,” was the famous retort, “were I Pa…In November 332 he reached Egypt. The people welcomed him as their deliverer, and the Persi…In July 331 Alexander was at Thapsacus on the Euphrates. Instead of taking the direct route down the river to Babylon, he made across northern Mesopotamia toward the Tigris, and Darius, learning of this move from an advance force sent under Mazaeus to the Euphrates crossing, ma…See more on britannica.comAuthor: Frank W. Walbank From Issus Alexander marched south into Syria and Phoenicia, his object being to isolate the P…While the siege of Tyre was in progress, Darius sent a new offer: he would pay a huge ransom of 10,000 talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates. “I would accept,” Parmenio is reported to have said, “were I Alexander”; “I too,” was the famous retort, “were I Pa… In November 332 he reached Egypt. The people welcomed him as their deliverer, and the Persi…In July 331 Alexander was at Thapsacus on the Euphrates. Instead of taking the direct route down the river to Babylon, he made across northern Mesopotamia toward the Tigris, and Darius, learning of this move from an advance force sent under Mazaeus to the Euphrates crossing, ma…
From Issus Alexander marched south into Syria and Phoenicia, his object being to isolate the P…While the siege of Tyre was in progress, Darius sent a new offer: he would pay a huge ransom of 10,000 talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates. “I would accept,” Parmenio is reported to have said, “were I Alexander”; “I too,” was the famous retort, “were I Pa…
In November 332 he reached Egypt. The people welcomed him as their deliverer, and the Persi…In July 331 Alexander was at Thapsacus on the Euphrates. Instead of taking the direct route down the river to Babylon, he made across northern Mesopotamia toward the Tigris, and Darius, learning of this move from an advance force sent under Mazaeus to the Euphrates crossing, ma…
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