Alexander the Great's vast empire was built upon his keen and continuously changing battle tactics, which depended on the enemy and terrain.

The Battle of Issus, fought in 333 BC, was one of the most pivotal moments in ancient history. On one side stood Alexander the Great, the young and ambitious king of Macedon, leading his army of ...

The Battle of the Granicus was a large battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire in 334 BC. The battle took place along the Granicus River in what is now modern-day Turkey.

The computer game version of the boardgame, from GMT Games, of the same name. It is a turn-based tactical wargame that includes ten of Alexander’s battles. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com After ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from modern Albania ...

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