Alexander The Great's Battle at the River Jhelum

The author is missing some other things that alexandar's men would not have seen on their journey from greece to india.<p>[1] crocodiles [2] tigers [3] monkeys [4] venomous snakes ( this is a major problem for moving at night) [5] mosquitoes [6] diseases ( with so much life, comes diseases )<p>He says alexandar would have won the war easily if he had attacked two months earlier. He had no idea about the heat in april and march. His horses don't stand a chance in the punjab heat. They would have lost more easily if they went two months earlier.<p>Alexander was accustomed to fight in temperate regions and deserts, where horses are very effective. Where as india is either tropical or sub-tropical, where horses don't do very well. What was once his weapon, has become his weakness.

&#62; <i>50,000 Infantry</i><p>How verifiable are these numbers? This seems like an awfully large army, given the context.<p>To put this in some perspective, that's about the size of the army Hannibal entered Gaul with in the second punic war [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War</a>

These stories make me hope that some code-savvy historians will one day create a visualization of famous battles using d3.js or something similar to what went into <i>Snow Fall</i>.<p>It'd be a fascinating way to teach history, and it'll work perfectly on tablets.

Bizarre posting. This appears to be a high-school page (authored either by very-good students or not-so-good teachers) and last updated, according to the page, in 2000! I lean towards thinking this is a student project since some of the other articles on this site aren't very well researched. However, this would have been a fairly spiffy result from a group of students in 2000!<p>But... Why post this? I am not sure I understand.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Hydaspes" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Hydaspes</a>

His hometown is close to were I live. I've visited his father's, Philipos, tomb at Vergina. Massive structure, loads of gold, really impressive. Sometime they have to find Alexander's tomb too... it still remains an unexplored mystery.

It's fiction, but I recommend "The Virtues of War" by Steven Pressfield. It's a novel (based on history, but certainly dramatized) about Alexander's march to the East.

The king name is "Purushottam" not "Porus".

Nice, different post. This is relevant to my interests...

There is still a village in Himalays where the residents refuse to mix with other Indians claiming that they are descendants of Alexander.

Raja = King not warlord. Chandragupt Maurya the Emperor of Patliputra (now Patna) had an army much bigger than Porus'

Nobody told Alexander the Great about the Indian monsoon season? Surely he could have gained some information about the country he invaded before committing.