Alexander the Great's Greatest Victory
The Ancients
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The Importance of the Left Wing in Galgamela
Most of the macedonian phalanxs in the centre, they kept storming forwards towards the centre of darius's line. In the meantime, as all this had been going on, on the left wing, a mixture of cavalry and chariots and possibly some infantry there as well. Sadly, because our sources tend to focus in on alexander at this battle, we don't know as much about the left wing about the fighting as we would like. But what we do know is that parmenion was holding out against much larger, overwhelming odds, which were charging the left flank from all directions. And this seems like a good time to shine a light on the importance,
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