Alexander the Great Battles -
326 BC Battle of the Hydaspes River
326 BC Siege of the Sogdian Rock
330 BC Battle of the Persian Gate
331 BC Battle of Gaugamela
332 BCSiege of Gaza
333 BC Battle of Issus
334 BC Siege of Miletus
334 BC Siege of Halicarnassus
334 BC Battle of the Granicus River
335 BC Balkan campaign
338 BC Battle of Chaeronea
Alexander the Great- Quick facts
He was the son of Phillip II of Macedon and Olympias.
Aristotle was his tutor.
He succeeded to the throne in 336 B.C. and immediately quietened the restive Greek cities.
Alexander secured Greece and the Balkan peninsula and then crossed the Hellespont (Dardanelles) to take on the Persians.
Alexander was associated with the cutting of the Gordian Knot.
Bucephalus was his legendary horse.
During his youth, Alexander tamed the wild horse Bucephalus. Later, when his beloved horse died, Alexander renamed a city in India for Bucephalus.
The successors of Alexander are known as the Diadochi.
Alexander Always carried the book the Illiad with him.
At age 20 Alexander became king of Macedonia
