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    Persian Gate 10 Uxians 9 Gaugamela 8 Alexandria 7 Gaza 6 Tyre 5 Issus 4 Miletus 3 Granicus 2 Pella 1    The Battle of Gaugamela (/ˌɡɔːɡəˈmiːlə/ GAW-gə-MEE-lə;...
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    of the Battle of Gaugamela Discovered". www.kurdishglobe.net. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. "The Location of the Battle of Gaugamela Discovered...
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  • Achaemenid Persian army of Darius III, Alexander employed the so-called "hammer and anvil" tactic. However, in the Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC), the Persians...
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    11 Persian Gate 10 Uxians 9 Gaugamela 8 Alexandria 7 Gaza 6 Tyre 5 Issus 4 Miletus 3 Granicus 2 Pella 1    The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in...
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  • Alexander (2004 film) (category Cultural depictions of Aristotle)
    his great battle against the Persian Emperor Darius III in the Battle of Gaugamela, and his eight-year campaign across Asia. Alexander's most private...
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    11 Persian Gate 10 Uxians 9 Gaugamela 8 Alexandria 7 Gaza 6 Tyre 5 Issus 4 Miletus 3 Granicus 2 Pella 1    The Battle of Jaxartes was fought in 329 BC...
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    Philippicarum recount that Darius fled out of fear at the Battle of Issus and again two years later at the Battle of Gaugamela despite commanding a larger force...
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  • Histories. Arrian 1.16.45 – 50 "Advance to the East and the battle of Gaugamela", The Genius of Alexander the Great : in Ancient and Medieval Greek Poetry...
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    Minor, Alexander broke the power of Achaemenid Persia in a series of decisive battles, including those at Issus and Gaugamela; he subsequently overthrew Darius...
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    Phobos (mythology) (category Children of Aphrodite)
    the eve of the Battle of Gaugamela (in all probability asking for Darius to be filled with fear). This was believed by Mary Renault to be part of Alexander's...
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  • ancient and medieval times than has the city of Syracuse." The Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BC Also called the Battle of Arbela. Excerpt: "the ancient Persian empire...
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    early as 331 BC by Darius III against Alexander the Great at the Battle of Gaugamela in Persia.[citation needed] In the United States, five officers were...
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  • Darius. It is not known whether this "great battle" refers to the Battle of Issus or the Battle of Gaugamela. The purported location—somewhere in Khorasan...
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    again forced to flee the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. The Persian king was later captured and executed by his own satrap of Bactria and kinsman, Bessus...
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    Hephaestion (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
    that the battle of Gaugamela was partly won on the banks of the Euphrates and that Mazaeus' reinstatement was less a sign of magnanimity than of a prearranged...
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    Macedonian phalanx (category Infantry units and formations of Macedon)
    BC) Battle of Issus (333 BC) Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC) Battle of the Hydaspes (326 BC) Hellenistic armies Gabriel, Richard A. (2010). Philip II of Macedonia:...
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    authors fit closely to these contemporary records. Before the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC Alexander the Great camped for four days near the aqueduct at...
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    Great and his army arrived to what is now Afghanistan after the Battle of Gaugamela. Many empires have used it as a headquarters in the last 2,000 years,...
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  • Parmenion (category Generals of Philip II of Macedon)
    night attack in 331 BC on Darius' assembled superior forces at the Battle of Gaugamela, which Alexander took as evidence that Darius would keep his troops...
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    Bactrian troops from Balkh fought in the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BCE against the advancing armies of the Ancient Macedonians. The Achaemenids were...
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  • cavalry officer at the battle of Gaugamela, where his squadron was stationed between those of Glaucias and Sopolis. Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great:...
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    the Battle of Gaugamela, as an example. Battle of Crocus Field, Battle of Chaeronea, Battle of Thebes, Battle of Granicus, Battle of Issus, Battle of Gaugamela...
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  • fact that the Italian defenses could not support each other. The Battle of Gaugamela, in which Alexander the Great used his Companion Cavalry to charge...
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    most elite members of his hypaspistai were designated as the agema, yet a new term for hypaspistai emerged after the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC: the argyraspides...
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    nomarch to control Egypt. October 1 – Alexander is victorious in the Battle of Gaugamela (near ancient Ninevah) over the Persian King Darius III. Alexander...
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    Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae, Alexander the Great at the Battle of Gaugamela, Frederick II of Prussia, and the Confederate army at the Battle of Gettysburg...
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    and later fought at the Battle of Gaugamela under Darius III, the last King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire. After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire,...
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    over control of the Persian Empire. Alexander defeated Darius at the Battle of Issus and again two years later at the Battle of Gaugamela. The work is...
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  • the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. Following the Persian defeat at Gaugamela, Darius III realized he could not aptly defend his royal capital of Persepolis...
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    Uxians 9 Gaugamela 8 Alexandria 7 Gaza 6 Tyre 5 Issus 4 Miletus 3 Granicus 2 Pella 1    The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BC was the first of three major...
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