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Siege of Gaza

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Gaza was a siege ordered by Alexander the Great of the city Gaza controlled by Persian Empire in October 332 BC. Batis, the commander of the fortress of Gaza, refused to surrender to ...

Battle of Issus

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Issus, was a battle between the invading Macedonian troops, led by Alexander the Great against an Persian army lead by Darius III during Alexander's Persian Campaign. It occurred in ...

Also known as The Battle of the Granicus River, was a battle in May 334 BC between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire. Fought in Northwestern Asia Minor, near the site of Troy, it was here ...

Siege of Miletus

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Miletus was a naval siege directed by Alexander the Great's against the inhabitants of Miletus, a city in southern Ionia, in Caria, held by the Persian Empire. Miletus is now located in ...

Siege of Halicarnassus

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Halicarnassus was fought between Alexander the Great and Orontobates and Memnon of Rhodes of the Persian Empirein in Halicarnassus, now Bodrum, Turkey in 334 BC . With the battle ...

Siege ofTyre

History; Ancient Greece

The Siege of Tyre was a siege of the city of Tyre, a strategic coastal Persian base on the Mediterranean Sea, ordered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The Macedonian army was unable to capture the ...

Battle of Byzantium

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Byzantium was a confrontation in the Second War of the Diadochi, in the Marmara Sea near the ancient city of Byzantium, today's Istanbul. It took place in the summer of 317 BC. In ...