A madman in the history of war, the founder of the glory of Macedonia, at whose hands Alexander the Great died
The founder of Macedonia's glory, an amazing presence in the history of war, Alexander the Great once led his soldiers to build a strong country in ten years.
I thought he could continue to carry forward the glory in his body, but a generation of emperors died in Babylon on June 13, 323 BC, who killed Alexander the Great?
(1) Alexander was young and successful.
Alexander was Aristotle's apprentice, and many of Aristotle's ideas about things influenced the way Alexander behaved and did things in the future, and also taught him to constantly explore and pursue.
Alexander's father was also a warrior, he led his soldiers to unite Greece, but when Alexander was 20 years old, he was accidentally assassinated by a killer sent by the Persian Empire, and after his father's death, Macedonia was leaderless, and there was a serious rebellion in Greece.
Loyal to his father worked together to elect Alexander to the throne, and Alexander did not live up to expectations, and after he ascended the throne, he first calmed the internal strife in Greece itself with a tough hand, suppressing various forces that did not obey him.
After ensuring that the large and small forces in Greece were willing to support him unconditionally, Alexander attacked the Persian Empire under the banner of avenging his father, and many ministers in the court were preventing Alexander's actions.
After all, at that time, the gap in military strength between the Greek and Persian empires was huge, and forcibly attacking was tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble, but Alexander did not realize it, he chose to take advantage of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses to break one by one, and the small cities under the rule of the Persian Empire were attacked one after another.
The tactic of reducing the whole to pieces shocked the morale of the Greek army, and finally Alexander took Persia in one fell swoop, and it was this war that made Alexander's name completely popular.
(2) Alexander, the god of war.
The four greatest military commanders in European history are Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and the head of the military commander is Alexander the Great, who can force the three to sit on the first place relying not only on strength and decisiveness, but also winning battles is enough to make him "a god" in the history of war.
After conquering the Persian lands, Alexander the Great defeated the army of the Indian king at the Hydaspest River in the summer of 327 BC, successfully making India creeping and vassal.
The biggest reason why Alexander did not let India disappear was that the temperature in northwest India was extremely high, and although the local military strength was backward, it was full of plague and poisonous insects.
The people of India did not want to be captured, even the people who had not participated in the war took up arms and actively resisted, and if they were determined to destroy India, it was likely to be a war that wounded the enemy by a thousand and damaged itself by eight hundred.
Alexander did not need a crushing victory, because he needed his troops to maintain strong military strength for subsequent battles, so in 324 BC, Alexander ordered his soldiers to withdraw back to Babylon.
The territory of Greece expanded wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Alexander built an empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa - the Macedonian Empire.
Everyone thought that Alexander would continue his invincible and invincible glory, as did Alexander himself, who counted the strength of his army and attacked the Arabian Peninsula, and died suddenly when he was ready to expand his imperial blueprint again.
(3) The reasons for the fall of a generation of war gods.
On June 13, 323 BC, Alexander the Great died suddenly and violently, which is shocking, but the historical records do not accurately record the cause of Alexander's death, and later historians have made 3 speculations about the death of Alexander after consulting different materials.
(1) Killed by Antipatru.
According to the " Expedition of Alexander " , Antipatru was a general of Alexander the Great , and Alexander's war in India caused his body to be eroded by the poison of the swamp, and he needed to take medicine to remove the poison after returning to Babylon.
The younger brother of Antipatru's son was wronged by Alexander, so he took this opportunity to secretly poison the drug, which caused Alexander to die suddenly.
(2) Illness at the drinking party.
After Alexander the Great returned to Babylon, in order to celebrate his establishment of the Macedonian Empire, he invited his soldiers to drink and celebrate, and everyone was happy at the banquet, and Alexander also drank a lot of wine.
When his body did not allow it, drinking too much alcohol caused Alexander to have a very severe high fever, and the high fever did not go away, coupled with cold in the middle of the night, which caused him to die.
(3) The Indian plague.
The American scholar Gauller seems to have the most reliable speculation about Alexander's death, he believes that Alexander led his soldiers to fight in India for the longest time, and the body will gradually erode if left in the wet and muddy swamp for a long time.
It was precisely because Alexander contracted the plague in India that he could not be effectively treated that he retreated with his soldiers, and suddenly died after returning to Babylon.
Resources
Encyclopædia Britannica
"New Biography of Alexander"
"Ancient Greece"
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