At Gaugamela, Alexander won by riding away from the Persian king he had come to destroy.

The plain of Gaugamela, northern Mesopotamia, 331 BC. Darius the Third chose the ground, flattened it for two hundred scythed chariots and brought a line far longer than Alexander's army. If Alexander lost here, the war in Asia was over.

How do forty-seven thousand men beat a line too long to fight, and why does their king win by riding the wrong way?

More battles of Alexander the Great in the playlist on the channel.

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00:00 The King Who Rode the Wrong Way
01:44 Darius Builds a Runway
05:18 A Victory He Would Not Steal
08:17 The Morning He Overslept
11:52 The Slide to the Right
16:41 The Wedge
20:25 The Message From Parmenion
24:53 The Race to Arbela
26:07 What Gaugamela Won and Cost

Sources Used:
Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander
Plutarch, Life of Alexander
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History
Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander

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