Alexander the Great's Greatest Victory
The Ancients
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Dariu's Cavalry
Darius had gathered a formidable army with which to face alexander. His battle plan was very clear to see. He deployed his scythe chariots all along the length of his line, particularly opposite alexander on his left wing. They would crate disruption in the cavalry, in the infantry of the macedonians. And through these gaps, the persian cavalry would exploitThese gaps, cause more disruption, and the macedonian army would fall apart. That was the persian plan, as mentioned earlier. The size of dariu's army, we cannot know for sure because the numbers that are given in the greco roman historians that survive to this day
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