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On his deathbed Alexander the Great had handed his signet to Perdiccas, his highest-ranking subordinate. It provided Perdiccas a degree of authority among the generals and fuelled his ambitions in the post-Alexander world. But it also stoked the embers for bitter rivalry.

Despite making no attempt to seize power following King Philip II's demise, Amyntas - Alexander the Great's cousin - was swiftly executed by Alexander, perceiving him a threat

For future orators the quality of Demosthenes' works and speeches he left behind became a major source of inspiration - to none more so than Cicero, Rome's answer to Demosthenes. After death, Demosthenes became the epitome of Athenian virtue.

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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Several cases of 1on1, general vs general combat are reported in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's death: Eumenes vs Neoptolemus, Lysimachus vs Seleucus and Pyrrhus vs Pantauchus.

By 323 BC the number of Asian battalions in Alexander the Great's army far outnumbered the Macedonian contingents in size and strength. Among them were some of the finest cavalrymen in the whole of Asia, hailing from noble Oriental families.

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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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As the Battle of Corupedium raged on, the elderly Lysimachus met his end, transfixed on a spear thrown by a Heracleian called Malacon according to one source