After a bitter fighting, Greeks conquered Sangla, the capital of Kathas where 17000 tribesmen where killed and rest where taken captived. After crossing Ravi, he faced the bestial army of Kathas. Before heading towards further south, Alexander founded two cities of Boukephala & Nikaia, named after his two favorite horses who died in the Battle of Hydaspes.Īlexander then grappled with numerous tribesmen of Northwestern India while moving between the rivers Chenab & Ravi. Alexander was greatly impressed by his personality and adjudicated to return his kingdom in return of his hegemony over Jhelum territory. “Treat me as a king”, Poros said before he would have been sentenced to death. Poros was taken aback and in spite of his bravery, he was defeated, wounded and taken prisoner. When alexander realized that the river is impregnable, he waited till midnight and crossed the river through a passage of boulders.
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The belligerants faced each other from opposite bank of river Jhelum. Poros had 30,000 foot soldiers, 4000 cavalries, 300 chariots and 200 elephants. The invincible manoeuvre of the Greeks was deterred by Poros, the king of Jhelum territory in the infamous Battle of Hydaspes. Ambhi accepted Alexander as his overlord and pledged his territory. King of Taxila, Ambhi greeted him with a resplendent party where both the kings treated each other with great courtesy and generosity. From Ohind, Alexander proceeded towards Taxila. While crossing the Indus river he constructed a bridge at Ohind (present day Khyber Pakhtunwa). Gandhara kingdom was defeated within one week and 100,000 infantry and cavalry were taken into captive in the fort of Massaga in Kandahar. The first major dissenter was Asvayanas (Gandhara kingdom) with their capital at Puskalavati.
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While on his away to the unexplored Eastern World, they faced many fierce tribal communities. Hephaestion had a great success against the Gedrosians in present day Eastern Iran. While on his way to the epic invasion, Alexander divided his army into two parts – one was under his command and another was under his two trusted generals, Hephaestion & Perdikkas towards India. The decisive battle was fought at the city of Arbela in which Greeks vanquished the western Persian empire.Īlexander was not satisfied with his conquest of Middle & Central Asia as he has determined to be the master of the land of milk and honey (India). The birth of Greeks can be traced back to 400 BC when Persia got disintegrated into small hostile kingdoms, fighting many sanguinary battles against Persia and finally clubbed together into one mighty empire – THE GREEKS! After this reunification, the hundred year war conduced into two-front war between Persia & Greek. Persia & Greek were age old belligerants since 700 BC when entire Gulf was under the Persian hegemony. 331 BC, Persepolis, the capital of Persia where Darius Codomannus, the persian king surrendered to the ferocious Greeks headed by King Alexander the son of Philip of Macedonia.