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| Battle of the Hydaspes | |||||||||
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| Part of Alexander's Indian campaign | |||||||||
_and_Porus_(oil_on_canvas).jpg) Alexander the Great and Porus Francesco Fontebasso | |||||||||
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Macedonian Empire Hellenic League Gandhara | Pauravas[1] | ||||||||
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45,000–47,000 total |
22,000–54,000 total | ||||||||
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~1,000 total[12] |
21,000–23,000 total | ||||||||
820miles
The Battle of the Hydaspes also known as Battle of Jhelum, or First Battle of Jhelum, was fought between Alexander the Great and Porus in May of 326 BC. It took place on the banks of the Hydaspes River in Punjab, as part of Alexander's Indian campaign. In what was possibly their most costly engagement,[17] the Macedonian army secured a decisive victory over the Pauravas and captured Porus.[e] Large areas of Punjab were subsequently absorbed into the Macedonian Empire; Porus was reinstated as the region's ruler after Alexander, having developed a newfound respect for the fierce resistance put up by Porus and his army, appointed him as a satrap.
In spite of close Indian surveillance, Alexander's decision to cross the monsoon-swollen Hydaspes in order to catch Porus's army in the flank has been referred to as one of his "masterpieces" in combat.[19] The Macedonians' engagement with the Indians at Hydaspes remains a very significant historical event with regard to the Wars of Alexander the Great, as it resulted in the exposure of Greek political and cultural influences to the Indian subcontinent, which would continue to affect Greeks and Indians for centuries to come.
- ^ Graham Phillips (31 March 2012). Alexander The Great. Ebury Publishing. pp. 129–131. ISBN 978-0-7535-3582-0.
- ^ Green 1991, p. 402.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Arrian 5.14was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Fuller estimates a further 2,000 cavalry under Craterus's command.
- ^ Harbottle, Thomas Benfield (1906). Dictionary of Battles. New York.
- ^ a b Plutarch 62.1:"But this last combat with Porus took off the edge of the Macedonians' courage, and stayed their further progress into India. For having found it hard enough to defeat an enemy who brought but twenty thousand foot and two thousand horse into the field..."
- ^ a b c Arrian, 5.15
- ^ a b Diodorus, 17.87.2
- ^ Green 1991, p. 553.
- ^ Curtius 8.13.6; Metz Epitome 54 (following Curtius)
- ^ Plutarch 60.5
- ^ Roy 2004, pp. 19–23.
- ^ a b c Arrian, 5.18
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Diodorus 17.89.3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ According to Fuller 1960, p. 199, "Diodorus' figures appear more realistic."
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Diodorus 17.89.1-3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Peter Connolly. Greece and Rome At War. Macdonald Phoebus Ltd, 1981, p. 66
- ^ Brice 2012, p. 81.
- ^ Burn 1965, p. 150
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