. Six thousand years of history. ed by a suc-cessful assault on that part of the Persian host whereDarius himself was posted; confident in the power of thephalanx, and yet taking every precaution that skill andforesight could suggest—Alexander gained for himself,by his dispositions and conduct on this great day, a placeamong the foremost tacticians and heroes in the historyof the world. The phalanx forced its irresistible waythrough the Persian center, moved nearer and nearer toDarius, shook his strong nerves at last, and sent him flee-ing, fast as horse could bear him, from the field of, notm
. Six thousand years of history. ed by a suc-cessful assault on that part of the Persian host whereDarius himself was posted; confident in the power of thephalanx, and yet taking every precaution that skill andforesight could suggest—Alexander gained for himself,by his dispositions and conduct on this great day, a placeamong the foremost tacticians and heroes in the historyof the world. The phalanx forced its irresistible waythrough the Persian center, moved nearer and nearer toDarius, shook his strong nerves at last, and sent him flee-ing, fast as horse could bear him, from the field of, notmerely a lost battle, but a ruined Empire. A few daysafterward Alexander entered Babylon, far to the south,as virtual master of the Eastern world, at the age oftwenty-five. In the following year (B. C. 330) Dariuswas murdered by his satrap Bessus, governor of Bactria. After receiving the surrender of the other two capitals,Susa and Persepolis, Alexander spent the year B. C. 330in conquering the northern provinces of the Persian. VN .— C u, a. HISTORY OF GREECE 129 Empire, between the Caspian Sea and the Indus. In B. he marched into Bactria, over the mountains nowcalled the Hindoo Koosh, caught and slew the traitor Bes-sus, and advanced even beyond the river Jaxartes (the Siror Sihon). In B. C. 328 he was engaged in the conquestof Sogdiana, between the Oxus and Jaxartes, the countryof which the capital was Maracanda, the modern Samar-cand. In the spring, B. C. 327, Alexander marchedthrough what is now Afghanistan, crossed the Indus, anddefeated an Indian King, Porus, on the banks of theHydaspes. He was thus the first European sovereign toconquer the Punjaub, which he restored, in honor of agallant resistance, to his prisoner Porus. Beyond theHyphasis the now war-worn Macedonian soldiers declinedto march, and Alexander determined to go back, by a newroute, to Persia. On his way to the Indus he stormed thecapital of an Indian tribe, now Mooltan, and was himselfseverely wo
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