Twenty battles, zero losses, dead at 32. The thing nobody mentions about Alexander is that the only force on earth that ever actually stopped him was his own exhausted army standing in a river in India telling him no. Everything else went down. Cities, empires, a poet's house he weirdly decided to spare.

I got about four hours into researching the Tyre siege and realized he spent seven months building a road through the sea because one city wouldn't let him into a temple. That's the whole man, right there.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:25 The Horse Nobody Could Ride
2:15 Sixteen, Regent, Already Terrifying
3:33 Twenty Years Old, Zero Chill
6:04 Crossing With No Money
7:46 The Knot And The Chase
9:26 Seven Months Of Spite
10:48 Egypt Made Him A God
12:03 Gaugamela. One Gap
13:46 The Palace Burned Anyway
15:59 Elephants And A Wall
17:55 The Desert And The Fever

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How The Youngest Conqueror in History Destroyed Everyone