Реферат: Alexander

surprise attack from the rear. The Persians put up a good fight but it was not enough to

save them. This victory has been called ‘one of the most hazardous, audacious, and

certainly the most profitable of mountain campaigns in the annals of history’.

Alexander achieved his goal and captured the great city of Persopolis yet he was

not yet satisfied. He still wanted Darius dead or alive. In July Alexander pursued in a

quest to find Darius. He marched on in the sweltering heat across the Great Salt Desert

towards Afghanistan. Finally after a long an arduous journey, Alexander reached a place

called Thara in which he learned that Darius had been overthrown by his own

commanders the night before. Eager to still pursue Darius, Alexander pressed on through

the Ahuran pass. By the time Alexander caught up with the Persian leaders, they were

already fleeing. At the same time they stabbed Darius and left him there for dead. One of

Alexander’s soldiers met up with him and gave him some water. Darius conveyed a

message to Alexander thanking him for his honorable treatment of his mother and family

throughout all this. Darius was dead by the time Alexander got there. Alexander covered

the body with his cloak and was shocked by the premature death of the King of the

World.

Alexander would go on through many different cities conquering anything in his

way for the next three years. In the spring of 327 BC Alexander and his troops invaded

India.12 They first went to Taxila and met some opposition; but in a few minutes King

Ambi of Taxila welcomed Alexander to his new conquest. Alexander stayed here shortly

and then pressed on to the Battle on the Jhelum River. The opposition was the Indian

army led by Rajah Porus consisting of 30,000 men. Alexander’s army pressed on across

the river Jhelum and soon through a tough battle defeated Porus’s army. The most

personal loss of this war was Alexander’s beloved horse Bucephalus who died from

wounds in battle. It was here that Alexander named the town after his war-horse.

The majority of Alexander’s army, tired from battles and homesick, decided they

would not push any further into the rest of India or in their time the ends of the Earth as

they knew it. Alexander, after giving the idea serious thought, decided that he needed to

take over the rest of India before heading home to Macedonia. The army agreed and they