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King Antiochus III showed remarkable heroism at the Battle of the Arius River in 208 BC. Knowing that the fate of the battle depended on holding off the enemy cavalry force long enough for his army to form up, he fought in the thickest of the action with his royal guard.

Alexander the Great mainly used his artillery machines to provide covering fire for his troops. They were manned by teams of specialised artillerymen.

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Perdiccas and his phalanx battalion proved their worth in several engagements during Alexander the Great's campaigns. From storming Thebes to accompanying Alexander on his gruelling night march across Zagros mountain passes as they circumnavigated a strong Persian defence.

After Meleager - a general - drunkenly berated Alexander the Great 1 night in India, the king replied 'Envious men only torment themselves'. It proved so. Throughout the rest of his reign, Meleager stayed in the shadows of mediocrity and never rose higher.

In 276 BC the Hellenistic king Pyrrhus famously remarked upon departing Sicily, 'Oh what a wrestling ground we are leaving for the Carthaginians and Romans to fight over.' He was proved right when, 12 years later, the First Punic War erupted.

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The Persians, Alexander, the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians: they had all built forts on the southern bank of the Jaxartes river (today the Syr Darya in central Asia) to fend off the threat of raiding nomads from the north.

In 279 BC an overconfident Ptolemy Ceraunus lead his Macedonian army out to face an invading Celtic horde in the open field. Lacking manpower and disorganised in their array, Ceraunus’ army was vanquished. Any survivors unfortunate enough to be taken alive were sacrificed.

Some argue Alexander the Great decided on crossing the Gedrosian Desert because of the man’s pothos, his desire to outdo all before him or out of revenge for his troops’ earlier mutiny in India. Yet others believe Alexander simply made a mistake in his logistical planning

While he was marching the 10,000 out of Asia some 50 years before, Xenophon had decided to burn his wagons to lighten his army's load. This greatly increased the speed and mobility of his force and was vital to the success of his march to the sea

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Scholars debate whether Philip’s Companions also had a small shield like the pelta of his Macedonian infantrymen. Whether this is the case or not, it appears they discarded it by the time of Alexander’s crossing into Asia in 334 BC

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