In September 331 BCE, Alexander marches east, into the Persian Empire’s hinterland. He heard scouting reports that Persian […]
Category Archive: HISTORY OF DECISIVE BATTLES
Three months after the great Macedonian victory in Gaugamela, Alexander marches his army into the Achaemenid heartland. Invading […]
After winning the Granicus River Battle in May 334 BCE, Macedonian King Alexander III marched south to liberate […]
In September 1066, Norway’s King Harald Hardrada beats the English forces at Fulford and takes York, escalating his […]
The Great King of Persia commanded the world’s biggest kingdom in the 5th century BC. Between Pakistan and […]
Alexander the Great, the Macedonian ruler, is remembered as the greatest of military commanders in antiquity, owing to […]
The Peloponnesian War was a struggle between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta that took place between […]
Cyrus the Great was a Persian king who reigned during the 6th century BCE. Media, Lydia, and Babylonia […]
Ramses II, the most famous Egyptian pharaoh, ruled Egypt in the 13th Century BCE. He fought in several […]
When King Darius I established the huge Persian Empire in 500 BCE, it was the largest empire the […]