The 1912 caption reads: “Flight of Darius Persian King. Alexander the Great totally defeated a huge Persian army at the Battle of Issus, and in this picture (top), we see Darius, the Persian king, fleeing in his chariot, which is nearly surrounded by Greeks. So confident had he been of victory that he had brought his family to the battlefield to see the defeat of the Greeks. Bottom. The chariots of the Persians, with huge knives fastened to the wheels, had always struck terror into their enemies; but the Greeks rendered them useless by wounding the horses and drivers with arrows and javelins.
The 1912 caption reads: “Flight of Darius Persian King. Alexander the Great totally defeated a huge Persian army at the Battle of Issus, and in this picture (top), we see Darius, the Persian king, fleeing in his chariot, which is nearly surrounded by Greeks. So confident had he been of victory that he had brought his family to the battlefield to see the defeat of the Greeks. Bottom. The chariots of the Persians, with huge knives fastened to the wheels, had always struck terror into their enemies; but the Greeks rendered them useless by wounding the horses and drivers with arrows and javelins.” Darius III was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia. He fought against Alexander the Great, after he invaded the land known today as Turkey, with the intent of conquering the Persian Empire. Darius faced alexander at the Battle of Issus in 333 Alexander defeated Darius' troops, but did not take Darius. In 331, Darius again faced Alexander at Gaugamela, and again Darius' forces were defeated. He left the battlefield, but by the time Alexander caught up with him, Darius had been killed by his own men.
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