Alexander the Great's Greatest Victory
The Ancients
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The Battle of the Tigris River
Alexander reaches the tigris river, having forced his soldiers to do a forced march to reach the river from this false intelligence. He arrives at the river, and he sees that there are no persians there occupying the far bank. And so he starts to get his army to cross the river. Alexander's army are able to cross relatively easily. We are told that a certain cavalry commander mesaus sees this crossing, but doesn't act - either because he doesn't have the soldiers, or his orders were to lay waste the surrounding land. Thanks to his use of the cavalry to stop the fast flowing current, to slow it down, he is able to crossed the river relatively easily
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