mainland filled. It took Alexander about seven months to take the city. He burnt it to the ground and tortured its people.(Townson 8). After this battle Alexander moved to Egypt. The Egyptians hated the Persians. Alexander was greeted and made pharaoh in 332 BC.He was also treated like a god by the Egyptians (Townson 9). Alexanderorganized the Egyptian government. He put their army under his command. He founded Alexandria on the western coast of the Nile. (Popovic Nile).Darius knew that Alexander would head east towards Babylon.Darius got together a huge army and in 331 he met up with Alexander(Townson 9). Alexander had about 7,250 cavalry and Darius had 34,000.He attacked the right of the Persian forces to draw away from the middle, then he attacked the middle and got to Darius. This was one of Alexandersgreatest victories.(Townson 9).Alexander now had the whole Persian empire ,he still wanted to go farther east. He crossed the Indus river into India and met the army of Porus, the Indian ruler. This was the first time the Macedonians ever saw elephants, their roars scared the Macedonians horses. Alexander was extremely outnumbered, so he hid two cavalry groups behind the hills toattack them from behind while the main group attacked them on the right. The elephants trampled the phalanx, but besides that the plan worked. WhenPorus saw that there was no way for him to win he left slowly on his Elephant(Townson 13).After this the army kept going east. Rumors started going around that there were huge armies with elephants ahead. His men refusedto go any further. They headed back, but went a different way than what they came and captured more cities. As he left the Greek rule was lost overthe land he had conquered. The garrisons he left behind were defeated(Popovic end).In Babylon Alexander got sick, and he died at the age of 32 (Cairns 91).He had done enough to wear out the strength of a hundredmen, and now he was worn out (Cair...
