It was Alexander the Great who ... forty thousand men and gradually executed the plan, which he soon expanded with greater ambitions: conquering the Persian Empire. Victories at the Granicus, Issus, ...

At the Battle of Gaugamela, fought in 331 B.C. in northern Iraq near present-day Erbil, Alexander faced as many as 1 million troops, according to Arrian (modern scholars' estimates vary but put ...

What this mosaic shows is the battle of Issus in 333 B.C., when a Macedonian ... There was, however, a further major showdown between Alexander and Darius two years later, at Gaugamela in the desert ...