"ALEXANDER THE GREAT "

"I am not afraid of any army of lions led by the lamb but, I am afraid of any army of lamb led by lion".

The quote belongs to the tremendous “ALEXANDER THE GREAT".

Alexander the Great was an ancient ruler "who rule almost half of the world".   The king of Macedonia, the ruler of Asia, One of history greatest   Military power’s House. The ruler of gigantic empire that the world had ever seen in  the  world  and  the  youngest  successful  king  who  rule half of the world. He had a dream to rule all over the world .He decided within the age of 15.

He said:

      If you can’t run then walk.

     “If you can’t walk then crawl.

 If you can’t win then take one step back

     “But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward"

That’s the secret behind in his all success.

  

Alexander the great:

Alexander III of Macedon ( 21 July  356 BC -10 June 323 BC) "commonly known as alexander the  great , was born in Pella Macedonia in 356 BC , His father was King Phillip II ,mother the great queen Olympia’s  , the people of Macedonia believes that king Phillip II was none other than Zeus the GOD OF the people of Greece  .Alexander was the king of great old Greek Kingdom of "Macedon and the member of Agread  dynasty .HE succeed his father at the age of 20 when his father king Phillip  was  assassinated in 356 BC by Persian's.  He spent most of his time ruling in Asia  and North East Africa .And was the youngest ruler who created one of the largest Empire in  the world  he stretch Greece empire to northern west India  at the age of 30 and never lost any battle in his life .  One of the most successful Military Commander the world had ever seen .died within the age of 15.

BUCEPHALUS:

At the age of 12 he   shown great courage to his father  when he take control of wild horse  BUCEPHALUS ,it  was the favorite horse of Alexander , mostly in  all the battles alexander ride on BUCEPHALUS .

Education:

when alexander was 13 his father  Phillip began to search for the tutor  and select  ,The great philosopher ARISTOTLE   to taught him  he provided him the temple of  Nymphs at Mieza and  considered it as a class room  Mieza was the boarding school for the alexander where he made friends later his friends will become his companions and future Generals . Aristotle became the teacher of alexander, Aristotle taught him Science, Medicine, literature, and philosophy at the age of 16, after that he was rewarded the General ship of Greece.

 

when Alexander turn  just 16 ,Philip  went to battle the Byzantium’s and left alexander alone and made him  in charge of Macedonia , In 338 B.C   without his father he control all Macedonia nicely.

IN 336 BC when his Father king Phillip assassinated, Alexander take the control of Macedonia, killed all his rivals. Successfully became the king.

 “ALEXANDER Marched towards Persia to conquer it with his well-armed army”.

BATTLE OF ISSUS: watch:

In 333 BC Alexander face King DARIUS III  The king of Persian Empire With his huge army of 250000 men  ,Alexander has 40000 Macedonian  Men's  BUT the key of his success was his army move in the shape of phalanx  8 to 36 men Deep  and men in front carried spears 4 to 6  meters.

            (12 to 18th feet long) because of this and his brilliant tactics of battle he won and defeated King Darius, won the battle of ISSUS. But king Darius manage to escape. And it became clear alexander won the battle but Darius escape from the battle  with his some troops leaving behind his family and wife but alexander  orders that Darius family will his family  and everybody treat  them like royal family.

BATTLE OF TYRE:

Next then Alexander took over Phoenician cities of Marathus and Aradus

After many battles he won the great city of Byblos and Sidon after it He then laid siege to the heavily fortified island of Tyre in (January 332 B.C.) after the Tyrians refused him to enter the city. But Alexander had no navy to conquered Tyre because it surrounded by water.

Alexander told his men to build boats so they easily reached the walls of Tyre. All went well his troops attacking Tyrians. Again and again, Tyrian forces thwarted Alexander’s clever attempts to gain entry, and he realized he needed a strong navy to penetrate their defenses

He amassed a large fleet, finally breached the city’s walls in July 332 B.C. and executed thousands of Tyrians for daring to defy Alexander and He sold many others into slavery.

ALEXANDER ENTERS EGYPT:

After Alexander reject the peace offer From Darius Alexander set his way to conquer the Egypt. He was sidelined at Gaza “however”, he forced to endure another lengthy siege. After several weeks" he took the town and entered Egypt where he established the city and change the name of city to his name: Alexandria.

ALEXANDER BECAME THE KING OF THE WHOLE PERSIA: After conquering Egypt.  Alexander again faces the huge army of Darius and his massive troops in the October 331 BC. The great battle starts after heavy loss on both sides.

Alexander won the battle but Darius was mange to escape alexander chase Darius as far as he can, But Darius assassinated by his own troop’s members.

“Alexander was sad when he found the body Darius and gave him the royal burial".

After the rid of Darius Alexander Proclaimed Himself the King of Persian Empire.

 "He kills all the people who betray him even his friends Generals.

After many win and the Whole control of Macedonia, Tyre, Babylon Sidon Egypt Persia.

ALEXANDER MADE BABYLON THE CAPITAL OF HIS EMPIRE. Now he was the king of Macedon, pharaoh of Egypt, king of Persia, king of Asia

 He Enters INDIA IN 327 BC:

In 327 BC ALEXANDER THE GREAT Marched on Punjab India. Some of the Troops, Rulers, and tribes surrendered peacefully, others did not. In 326 B.C., Alexander met King Porus of Paurava at the Hydaspes River.

And Alexander did not known what the Secret weapon's Porus has:

(ELEPHANTS):

            (THE ANIMAL ALEXANDER AND HIS ARMY NOT SEEN IN THEIR LIFE):

WATCH:

   

Porus army was less experienced than Alexander’s The Great, but they had a secret weapon elephants. Even so, after a fierce battle in a raging thunderstorm, Porus was defeated but his beloved horse Bucephalus was died in that battle .Alexander was also wounded because of arrow hit his arm, make him seriously ill. After recovering he defeated pours and manage to win  Hindukush but he did not killed Porus and make him his Allie.

After The win he named city to his beloved horse name Bucephalus.

But alexander wanted to conqueror all the INDIA but His army force him to go back to Persia because of home sickness.

THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT:

IN 323 BC Alexander became ill because of malaria and never recovers from it and Died in June 323 BC at the age of 32 only.But some historians says that  his mother killed him.

He also started to plan to Conquered  Arabia but his  dream  never became true because he die at the age of 32.

 He conquered almost half of the world.

This is the Article OF “Alexander the great"

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Alexander the great:

BUCEPHALUS:

BATTLE OF ISSUS:

BATTLE OF TYRE:

ALEXANDER ENTERS EGYPT:

 He Enters INDIA IN 327 BC:

(ELEPHANTS):

THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT:

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