Alexander the Great: Battle of the Hydaspes 326 BC 

Yes that's true it was to much.

Alexander was outnumbered two to one. Do you think that an army that had fought 4 years and 3000 miles might want to go home someday? As for Porus, that was just one fight in India, he killed thousands more on the way out.

@@vasileiospapazoglou2362 a guy named Chandragupta, in exile, in the Punjab, with a smaller less experienced force than Alexander's, would conquer that same Nanda Empire soon after Alexander intended to. The Nanda Army was definitely not too much. Chandragupta demonstrated that war is not that simpleminded. Just look at the statistics of the Persian Empire on paper...on paper, Macedonia conquering Persia would seem insane. But that's not how war works. If it were, then Alexander would have lost again the Persians since the Persians could theoretically muster 8 million soldiers in total (they had a population of 50 million) Ceasar faced 1 million Gauls. Unfortunately, raw total numbers like these mean very little in real life. As Chandragupta demonstrated. The Nanda Empire was made of many Kingdoms. Those numbers split between it. Porus told Alexander, that the king Xandrames was an utterly incompetent individual who became King by marring the Queen (he was a commoner. The some of a barber. But very handsome. The queen fell in love with him and they had her husband killed. Hence how this incompetent individual became King. His own vassal kings despised him. And other neighboring kings as well. It turns out Porus' advice to Alexander was correct, as it was this same individual who lost the Nanda Empire against Chandragupta. Chandragupta attacked vassal kingdoms seperately while half joined him and finished off with the capital with relative ease. Alexander always had local allies on his side. Ceasar always had Gauls on his side. Chandragupta, had Nanda vassals on his side. That's how real wars go. It's not like a video game where Soldiers are like machines and leaders are like simple programmed code. It's more complex than that. When Persia tried to invade Greece, most of Greece was allied with Persia. Thats how wars go in reality. There are always internal tensions and rivals in any nation. And the Nanda Empire was ripe for the picking...Chandragupta took what Alexander didn't. Those numbers don't tell the whole story, because the Nanda army wasn't a single army. And elephants are a huge liability, since more often than not, they tend to rampage and destroy their own army. It's how Porus lost, Alexander re-equipped his sarissa pikement specifically for Elephants and then drilled them in its use for months. Combined with skirmishers, also specially trained to target the Mahouts. After that battle, about 60 of the 85 elephants were still alive found roaming driverless. These mahouts were killed and their driverless elepahants driven back into the Indian lines, by these Macedonian anti-elephant squads, where these elephants wrecked havoc on Porus' own lines. Elephants destroying its own army was also how Hannibal lost at Zama. Pyrrhus always careful by keeping his elephants in reserve, was also killed because his was causing havoc while he was trying to retreat. Even Seleucus kept his elephants at the rear in reserve. He understood what a huge liability these creature were. Since he himself was an infantry officer, one of those specially trained in anti elepahants tactics for Hydaspes, whose own men drove elepahants into the Indian lines.

6000 armored elephants :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD I don't think so

All the kingdoms were United in India and fought against Alexander so they may have 6000 armed elephant

dont forget he named 70 cities Alexandria

Nydaelian #dictatorgoals

No, Buchephalas didn't die in battle, alexander was not rid him in battles, but other horses, he did that frequently. he didn't want his beloved horse to die in battle, alexander lost another horse in Granicus. buchephalas died from old age, he was around 20 years old when he died!

@@petros311 His horse died shortly after the war, there is a city in modern pakistan just along the Jhelum river(Hydapses) which was named after Buchephalas.

That city still exist in Pakistan

That is true, but the Indus Valley wasn't really foreign territory. The Indus Valley was part of the Persian empire. It was already his, he was just there to enforce his claim to it. The Indus Valey was conquered by Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great centuries before . It was made up of 7 satrapies. Persian supply networks were still intact. And Alexander was very thorough when it came to sucuring supply lines. All those places he built and named after himself were strategical forts. Most of these border forts. Alexander merely went to the Indus to subdue the Persian satrapies that refused to submit after being sent letters to submit. Of course, some did submit. And many even invited Alexander into the Indus Valley. When Alexander first crossed over to Asia, only 9000 of his infantry were Macedonian pikemen. 12000 were Greek hoplites 3000 were Macedonians armed as hoplites (these were his most elite and deadly infantry) And the rest were from the regions of the north. Thrace, Illyria, Paionia, Agriania, etc. So Alexander's army had always been mostly made up of foreigners built around a smaller Macedonian core. And that continued throughout his campaign. By the time Alexander reached the Indus Valley, he had a completely different army. Made up of mostly Asian soldiers, but still built around his Macedonian core. This included Indian soldiers. Plus, Alexander had access to most of the resources of the biggest empire on earth. By the time Alexander sailed down the river Hydaspes, he had 100 000 soldiers under his command. Including 300 elephants. This army was so massive that he had to split it in two. The other army led by Hephaestion. Alexander could easily afford to lose big portions of his army, so long as his Macedonian core remained in tact. But, it was his Macedonian core that mutineed chronically.

Not really, because his enemies didn't even try to break his logistics. Nobody tried to outmaneuver him in the bigger map; his enemy generals are of mediocrity.

@@tylerdurden3722 what history book do you refer that you claim such false statements?

@@harveyspecter1855 Go to Iran, there's a big monument built by Darius the Great. There he lists all the territories he controlled. Among it you will find the Indus Valley. You'll notice that all those territories listed, are all the places Alexander campaigned in. In other words, in his entire career, Alexander only conquered the Persian Empire, and he conquered it one Peraian Satrapy at a time. I have physical proof. Now give me your proof. (Not movies)

@@dharmdevil nice joke. Next one please.

Yes

Even though he was defeated, he was greatly respected by Alexander for being brave

323 BC he died

@@motherrussia7872 so?

yeah, pussy cowardice. :)

So on one hand you hate Hitler and you regard Alexander as great wow so cute :)

@@pritamgolatkar8862 ??

Actually alexander lost to porous,thats why they left for greece...and alexander died shortly after that battle, probably cuz of the wound from battle. But greeks changed the history little bit, cuz they want the world to know that alexander haven't lost any battle.

+naman seth.. On what basis do you make such a claim?

@@shaolindreams I do not need to prove it you Europeans have already Destroyed all the Evidences from India while you were ruling and I knew well you would ask this question.The Greeks never wanted To show Alexander's Defeat.During the British rule Europeans do have even tried to destroy some Indian monuments one was Taj Mahal.Often British wanted to destroy it but I dont know what made Queen Elizabeth to cancel that plan to destroy Taj Mahal.

@@shaolindreams One more addition Europeans not only destroyed Evidences from India but also from the countries that they were ruling,They did so because they wanted to show themselves Superior and Fathers of Western And Industrial Culture.

Alexander did not fight the Empire of India, but just a small king porous. Nanda, Later Mayura were huge empires. Something happened in the battle, that alexander lost his pride and courage. He handed over porous kingdom plus extra territories, for people who mauled his army, kiled his mount, almost stabbed him with the spear. Does not make any sense. Did not go back to Greece, but Iraq and died shortly after, maybe due to injuries. For sure he must have made truce with porous half way.

I think back in the day without all these technology and easy information that we have now, people used their brains more, that's why our ancestors could easily learn these things. Nowadays we're not using our brains much, we don't have to learn a language to go to another country right, just use Google translate.

that's what battle horns or drums are for. when soldiers hear the horn or drums (maybe on the code of count of the horn sound or beat in the drums case) they already know what to do.

Scouts...

@@hegel5816 If you had all that how did you lose

@@excessiveone9952 That’s a troll... That’s exactly what Hindu right in our country believes... and I am not joking...

Its movie fighting. Let's not just talk about battles but little skirmishes and duels. They always look hilarous instead of exciting.

Well there is a Movie about Alexander the Great.... kind off, or at least they treid lol.

this might be a better option than live action things like cavalry charges are very dangerous to do with actors

While it being fantasy, I'm quite sure the the lord of the rings trilogy is very tactical.

Its much easier for a movie to show the actual fighting in an interesting way, rather than the tactical side. This is a limitation of the medium i think. (coming from someone who knows one or two things about writing, where this problem is even worse)

If it ain't broken don't fix it

What a masterpiece he lost to india

@@akashpatil7217 did you look at that video? He fucking destroyed them.

Lol you still believe Alexander won this battle and went back home ......

@@sheshan88 but he did he saw that country is not even worth to conquer, people are worthless and weak and dont forget stinky, he didnt want to add something like that to his empire.

@@Michael-gd2fn people just desperately seek for some huge indestructible authorites... As well as hate someone. Like jews

Heh, a fellow watcher of Historia Civilis, this guy (Baz Battles) and Historia Civilis deserve more subscribers.

Master Vengco and Invicta too (before invicta, it was called THFEproduction), you should visit invicta.

TBH I think everybody who watches one of these channels also watches the other. They're so similar xd

Airlangga Julio invicta has like 3 historical videos (all of them are good in my opinion), but the rest is gameplay of a game ...

I got to historia civilis for the politics and baz battle for the battles. Although probably unnecessary a colab between the two would be fun to watch.

They are truly entertaining to watch, very well made

@Samar ha ha ha.. seeing ur jealous... Ok u were great..btw who r u..??

Why are you all fighting like this? It is true that alexander the great masacred infiintly and in lots of situations but the good he provided was much more in comparison to the harm he had made. 1)he unified many civilizations and spread the greek philosophy thus helping many civilizations evolve not to mention the help he gave them to the sector of mathematics physics etc. He kept mostly the persian organization system and evolved it. He unified greeks with persians via marriages. He strengthened the economy .with his findings he changed the western way of thinking and knowledge by far by exploring lots of the 'unknown world" (the Chinese lernt about the western civilizations due to this expansion of the greek ruler).and many more..... He also created lots of new cities

This is as neutral an account as you'll ever find. Try to accept facts for what they are.

@@bhagwankerhindouchebag4609 this aryan invasion theory is also disputable

@@bhagwankerhindouchebag4609 the people in harrappaan civilization were Aryan , but no records of Dravidians living before them

Alexander Is beaten by Indian king porus.... Like deer beaten by lion... For more information read Iran and China's history

@@dilipmule8533 Incorrect. It was a huge victory for Alexander and his army over King Porus. However, Alexander was so impressed with Porus, one of the few survivors of his army, that Alexander not only spared his life but left him in power as his Satrap

@@haribabun8436 See my reply to Jay mule.....

@@stuartalexander2657From 600000 soldiers ,30000 remained FROM WHICH ONLY 1000 BACK TO SERVICE... REALLY A NICE VICTORY.. TELL ME WHY COWARD ALEXANDER LATER RUN AWAY BY THE CHANDRAGUPTA KING 😂

@@studyhelp1965 You just refuse to do the slightest bit of research, don't ya?

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Yet India was conquered many times during its history.

@@Benji567891 yes but that was like 1600 years after Alexander. We simply had no chance against the mughal superior army and their metal weapons

India always captured due to betryal of someone from inside. We lacked unity. Individually we were brave but we lack unity and lot of social differences.

Source? He never even said that

So was there steel in 326bc

I know bro you were there at that time. I don't know why they believe on myths. Alexander troops were exhausted. Go work for whole day than u will find what exhausted means. Believe in Greeks myths. Btw he died just after battle because he was exhausted 🤣🤣

@@kingonfire1683 Literally EVERYTHING you just wrote is wrong. First, Alexander did NOT die just after this battle. He died THREE YEARS LATER. Second, yes, Alexander and his men were exhausted after crossing where he did, but he had PLANNED for this. He had ANOTHER contingent of FRESH TROOPS that crossed the river the following morning when Alexander's troops were near where the battle would eventually take place. The two Greek forces met up, and when Alexander saw Porus's main army coming, he sent his Iranian horse archers to stall Porus's army so Alexander could reorganize his own. THAT is the time that Porus SHOULD have attacked, and completely steam-rollered Alexander, but guess what? He DIDN'T. And to this day, we don't know WHY he didn't attack when he should have. Was he simply not ready? Was he not in an aggressive state of mind? We don't know, but whatever the case, he accepted the kind of battle Alexander presented to him. And before you say ANYTHING ELSE, everything I've just typed has been confirmed by MULTIPLE professional historians, who have spent their ENTIRE LIVES studying ancient military history. The only people who are stating myths, revisionist histories, and flat-out LIES, are people like YOU. So for the sake of all humanity, please keep your mouth SHUT and stop trying to BRAINWASH everyone with your false histories.

Don't call it Hydaspes river. Say it's original name Jhelum river. We don't want our rivers and lands to be called in a name given by a European (no offence to Europeans). But you know what I mean. Don't repeat this.

Yeah, that HAD to suck! I imagine he was close to tearing his hair out at that point.

Michael Oghia agreed, dick move by Alexander

Michael Oghia nope, there was actually a lot of evidence against his son, and it was very likely parmenion organized the coup. but even if he didn't, his son was pretty much guilty, and parmenion couldn't have been left alive after his son was just killed, he was too dangerous

I see. That seems to contradict what the video said at 3:55 ("...had him killed, despite the lack of sufficient evidence"). Can @BazBattles clarify?

Michael Oghia as with many things that happened over two thousand years ago, historians disagree. some sources say philotas was innocent, some suggest he was a traitor. Personally and since I'm very interested in Alexander, I read a biography that compared many sources, written by robin lane fox, suggesting he was likely involved in some kind of plot but no one can say for sure. Nevertheless, Alexander has no history of randomly executing his closest allies, the only real time he did that was at the banquet when he was drunk, and he didn't eat for days after because he felt guilty. and generals close to him (like ptolemaios) also didn't doubt his judgement. Then again, he had much to gain by being on Alexander's good side, so his records can't be trusted.

Parmenion's other son already died while serving Alexander I believe, so having his last son put to death would have been a too big of a blow to Parmenion, which Alexander simply could not risk, as he was going to the east.

@Razor Skidrow---This was one of those victories that felt like a defeat. That's what I'm trying to say.

@@brokenbridge6316 he lost his whole army in this battle...can't say that who defeated but porus definitely gave him tough competition

@@SandeepMeena79---If that is how you want to look at it.

Sandeep Meena 1500-3000 men is the whole army ? 😂😂😂

@Jerod Farmer how to count🤣🤣🤣we taught the world how to count..the number you use in indo arab numerical and we gave 0 without that how will you count 🤣🤣🤣the number that you are using that is 1 2 3 were given by indians🤣🤣

nice excuses - cant accept alexander lost so lets play homesick card -pro greek historians

This is not true that porus was captured.. this history was wrote under pressure of alaxander and made mecedonian pride. According to indian history alaxander was defeated by king porus( A trailer of indian warriors). After porus selucus nicketer(alaxander army cheif) defeated by the great chandragupta maurya.

10 years*

Speaking broken English is one of the best ways to destroy your credibility from the get-go, dude.

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Urarettin -D- Lexxar l

These are problly different 🐘. And not the same soilders fight every battle. And with no training vs. Is the same as 1st time. Close enough

Its funny how alexander won the battle of hydaspes and out of no where his unusual generosity towards porus is recorded by greek historians. Alexander slaughtered people and atleast took their resources or taxed the kingdom after defeating them. Where as he did not do any of those things with porus as an act of mercy he left the entire kingdom to him? Bunch of bullshit. India and china where the richest of all the kingdoms back then. Alexanders army was lost, tired and what not but still somehow without making any sense left india to its defeated king porus. Porus is a tribal king the army he had was very small. Civilisation on the indian subcontinent predates any Hellenistic way of life. So yeah alexanders army was not something which was of a surprise to porus.

@@Allinonetvz tribal nahi bhai he was our ancestor and we are Chandravanshi Rajputs from Trigarta kingdom. My clan is jaswal dynasty a sub clan of katochs. We have our fort in Kangra. Our king is mentioned in Mahabharat King Susharma Chand who fought against pandavs as he was ally of Hastinapur. Just google oldest fort in India , you will come to know about Katochs. Till Mahbharat 5154 years ago, our capital was in Jalandhar punjab, but after that capital was moved to Kangra in Himachal. In himalyas the forts were hard to built and they are not as large as Rajasthani forts bt our Puru or Purshutom or porus for greeks, they were very brave n strong and elephants were taught to kill enemies in many ways. It was bad on all of us, we indians ignore pahari rajputs and on the other side these greeks manipulated whole history and mentioned alexander was great. They feared their reputation will br distorted with the fact an Indian litttle town rajput king almost vanished Alexander. Our small army consisted of 20,000 infantry, 2000 cavalry and 200 war elephants. And just after that alexander army came to know Nandas were awaiting them with 200,000 infantry, 80,000 cavalry, 8000 war chariots and 6000 fighting elephants. Alexander’s army would have walked into a slaughterhouse. Thats'y they ran away from different routes and in iraq alexander died of injuries. They themselves mentioned Puru as 7 ft and how cunningly they made potraits of him surrending and pasted that thing all over internet and books. Hum indians ki apne itihas ko Value na dene ka natija hai bhai. And unfortunatly 326 B.C. mei koi ni likha history. You need to come to kangra fort, there is a museum there, where you will get to know abt everything. Tribal nahi bhai Rajput Warrior. Jai Hind 🕉️

@wali ahmed khokar No historians wrote everything but the invaders when they destroyed takshila and nalanda and many more and only showed truth that praised mughals. It was all too late. Furthermore, multiple historical mentions during the period between when Panini(5th Century B.C.) penned the existence of Trigarta and the 5th Century A.D. when Samudragupta invaded Trigarta and various other kingdoms.After Samudragupta, we were attacked many times by Ghazni from 1009 A.D. to 1070 A.D. Even after gazni we were attacked by Maharana ranjit singh of punjab with the help of gorkhas. So u can come to Kangra fort and can know more about them. Baki leave historians, infact gandhi rulers mentioned in their textbooks from 6 to 10th that puru ji surrendered infront of Alexander. What can we say n what can we expect from them though.

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11:12 "GG" I really like the humor too.

U know Pyrrhus(propably spelled wrong) he is a greek tactican who fought in south italian against romans and after 2 complete victorys he said: "If i win one more battle i will lose" Because the Romans could just throw their people at him. By the way he is the only one Hannibal considered better than him.

KONRAD Platt, Hannibal was modest when he put Pyrrhus above him. I personaly think Hannibal was even better than Alexander

I think Hannibal is one if not THE best tactican ever. check out HistoriaCivilis for his battles.

Pyrrhus is underrated by history because his memoirs have been lost despite being one of the premier military books of antiquity. Pyrrhus crafted a state that took the Romans almost a century to reproduce. Had he of been from a stable and well financed state in Greece other than Epirus, he probably would have been more able to complete his goals in the long haul.

Wrong

@@collinpearson5456 nerd

Right I am from India and take bath in This river,

Nope they never passed the river because they were exhausted by continuous battles

No they lost

random guy You're right. It was during this battle

RIP Bucephalus. Seriously though, everyone died in this video :'(

Vreau Playlisturi I read somewhere that he may have had multiple horses called Bucephalus. not sure though

He founded a city in his name, near the battle site. Bucephalia.

Bucephalus did not die in the batyle of the Hydaspes, but some weeks after it, maybe because of the wounds suffered, but maybe of old age as he was already 30 years old (Alexander and him had almost the same age). Alexander founded a city in the spot where he died, Bucephalia, today this city is called Jhelum.

Beralt Mivia Proof?

I think Alexander saw it cause them elephants are big

India deployed 6000 elephants and Persia only had 15 lol! 😂😂😂😂😂

Faith Gaubault their is not historical record and evidence of alexander's existence other than greek authors..why do you believe it then?

@@ToastersChannel I was taught India had sent some elephants to Iran as supplementary troops against Alexander.

I for one would never get tired of winning!!!😄

When you Lose for the first time in years, then you would be tired of winning!!!!!

@Arti they did by the hands of King Purshottam brain washed communist 😂😂😂😂

@@_Since-1994 wow you’re stupid aren’t you

@@aeternavictrix7861 and you are way more brainwashed go for the facts not what they tell you

he had touched the boder of india... He returned back seeing the mammoth Nandha army which was ruling rest of india...

@Alex Berkeson what is lol

COWARD ALEXANDER WHO WANTED TO RULE THE WORLD KNEW THAT HE WON'T DEFEAT THE INDIAN KING.......HE RUN AWAY BY THE CHANDRAGUPTA KING LIKE A COWARD..THAT SHOWED HIS BRAVERY 😂😂😂😂

Hey you patriot of so called european history. First don't put your misinformed and self patriotic history here. You aren't even aware of so many facts and characters like King Ambi - one of the kings who surrendered himself and his plot to save himself and alexander from Purushottam, you are not even aware of the princess of kosala and her role in getting immunity for alexander in war- whom alexander married after capturing their kingdom. And let me tell throw you another fact, India king Purushottam is never a fan of recording history for his own sake, he always believed the people of their kingdom will tell about his greatness and only record the greatness of other warriors he met. To know whether Alexander really captured Purushottam or Purushottam himself let alexander free and for what reason, Go do some home work before you act smart in comments just by watching a few minutes of videos on youtube.

@@chaitanyap7962 First of all, I didn't understand half your wall of text so try and formulate it a bit better. But from what I understood, what does any of that have to do with what I said? Alexander granting immunity to king and queens.. so? How is that even relevant? Secondly, you do realize you're denying actual history while I'm quoting the actual history.. right? So you can't say or do anything to prove me wrong, just a heads up.

Many Indians think that history has been tampered with, I'm not sure what happened in the battle but Porus wasn't a very big king to fight off Alexander. People think Alexander actually lost or won by a slight edge, he later died due to his wounds from the battle according to them. The victor writes the history, all the wars in the world aren't 100% accurate.

Can you quote which indian source mention Alexander ....I couldn't find any ... Just curious And before you say you illiterate and nomadic indians (nationalist you can add also) The great Takshila University was just doorstep of this battle ...why did they not record it And yep they record selucus which was just 5-8years after Alexander

What the heck is happening here ????👁👄👁💧 And like there can be many variants of one event in history sooo i think we don't known anything for sure unless we make a time machine and see ourselves....

Honey Steel total war player

These tactics were only available to Alexander because he had superior warriors from the start. The reason the cavalry were able to encircle the enemy forces unopposed is because the enemy was responding to his other flank collapsing... They wanted to maintain the left flank but gave up the right flank by doing so! The Indians probably should have squared off their infantry lines and re-closed the left flank instead of wheeling around the whole right flank in support, they would have not been encircled that way.

+Rob Laquiere They still would have lost, the Indian infantry were not equipped to deal with the Macedonian pike Phalanx.

I agree Tony, Alexander had superior warriors from the start. Even had the Indian force done everything correctly their is still a distinct chance they would have been defeated anyway. Alexander just made it a sure thing with his brilliant leadership.

+gaurav chaudhary You're an idiot. These are the following Historians and books where you can find evidence of Alexander's victory at the Battle of Hydaspes Arrian (1976) [140s AD]. The Campaigns of Alexander. trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-044253-7. Green, Peter (1992). Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B.C. A Historical Biography. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07166-2. Kosmin, Paul J. (2014), The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in Seleucid Empire, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-72882-0 Lane Fox, Robin (1973). Alexander the Great. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-86007-707-1. Lane Fox, Robin (1980). The Search for Alexander. Little Brown & Co. Boston. ISBN 0-316-29108-0. Mookerji, Radha Kumud (1988) [first published in 1966], Chandragupta Maurya and his times (4th ed.), Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 81-208-0433-3 Plutarch (2004). Life of Alexander. Modern Library. ISBN 0-8129-7133-7. Renault, Mary (1979). The Nature of Alexander. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-73825-X. Wilcken, Ulrich (1997) [1932]. Alexander the Great. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-00381-7. Worthington, Ian (2003). Alexander the Great. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-29187-9. Worthington, Ian (2004). Alexander the Great: Man And God. Pearson. ISBN 978-1-4058-0162-1. Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta, ed. (1988) [1967], Age of the Nandas and Mauryas (Second ed.), Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 81-208-0465-1 Don't remain in cuckoo land....

He lost moron

@@thegreatestdemon1288 He won moron.

no he was Fu*ked off by King Porus The Great .In the last moment he want to run to greek But unfortunately He couldn't he was die with no grave or anything

Khan BaBa Guru he wasn’t even close to Porus he was on his left Calvary flank 😂

Hahahahaha lol.....

Columbus 1492 how bout you read real history

Columbus 1492 about him getting raped by porus and running like a biatch

U r right

Maybe PTSD of Ancient Warfare

Killing the helpful commander was probably a sane move (logical). Parminion once did the same when he killed his own son-in-law, Attalus. Attalus' grandchildren (Phillips's children) were killed (eliminated by Alexander), because they had claim to the throne. Their mother, Cleopatra, committed suicide. So, it was obvious to everyone that Attalus would have motive to oppose Alexander's ascension, while he was stationed with the army in Asia Minor. Parminion wanted the succession to be smooth. So Parminion had his own son in law put to death before Attalus could even think about avenging his daughter and grandchildren. Then Parmenion died fot the exact same reasons he killed Attalus a few years before.

Killed his commander but left the enemy alive who killed his beloved horse and almost kill him lol

So why don’t you get fucked by your fake history

purus's strategy was so bad..all he had tanks and he tried to play maintaining fast assault and infiltration...-_-

You can't blame him, Porus wouldn't expect someone to attack his Army from the rear. Battles were sophisticated Ceremonial events in Ancient India. Ancient Indians were very religious, There were rules called - "Yuddha Dharma" or "Codes of Battlefield". These included : - If you are a High Ranked Fighters, Declare your Identities before the fight - Never attack the enemy from behind, This is considered Cowardice - Never attack someone below your Rank, Ex : Mounted units attack mounted units, Infantry only attacks infantry - Battle during the night was forbidden in Ancient India. Battles only happened before sunset and after sunrise Greeks broke every single rule since they were not expected to follow Ancient Indian Battle etiquette. You must realize that this was Ancient India's First Battle with outsiders. So its natural, They were surprised and unprepared, They did not know what to expect from the Greeks !

@Lord Voldemort they didn't, they just send forward the elephants and if randomdly some infantry enemy unit appear then bad luck for that guy /s

There are a few games, some of which are quite old - Rome Total War: Alexander - CIV VI (Conquest of Alexander scenario) - Fate of Hellas (Alexander Campaign) - Empire Earth (Greek Campaign) - etc.

Try rome 2 and get mods

Yeah my mom was one of the Elephants

Yeah I was Alex's 🏇

I live in Punjab This battle happened near my grandfathers home

@santhosh_____ k lol

I was the one controlling your father with my keyboard and mouse

Yes it's true . But people are not agreeing that fact that he was defeated by porus

@@mrcool2107 don't be ridiculous. Alexander didn't lose. His army demand return home. If he lose than india should take over his territory like alexender take over persia ready. Why india at that time can't even take a sigle inch of land from alexender? Lose bullsh!t lol

no you're not, lol.

@@mrcool2107 you literally saw the video, you can check historical documents, how tf he lost to porus if porus was captured by alexandr and his army was crashed?

@lmao k too bad the only valid information we have from west scientists, cuz Indians couldn’t write and safe shit

Brovahkiin the truth is that he was a young man... godly delusions was sure that surrounded him..thats why he accepted only Persians as his councillors because they told him what he wanted to hear I.x oh my great king and other stuff...the thing is that philotas just doubted these things...he would never betrayed his childhood friend...Alexander though had changed and he sadly killed him

Somnium actually he kept his generals and companions around at all times. He fought alongside his men, and didn't hate his generals even when they told him they won't march further.

@@brovahkiin4302 but alexander was not a great man. He was a great emperor but a terrible and cruel ruler and a human being.

@@aasamspb967 because he did what exactly

I don't think it was that long. The entire affair, started even before Alexander took Taxilla. This is probably Alexander's greatest display of genius...in terms of advanced long term planning. This video doesn't do it justice. The entire spectacle was pre-planned by Alexander. He knew about Porus and his reputation. And planned accordingly. 1. He had rafts that could be disassembled and carried a cross land commissioned from Damascus and sent towards Taxilla, months before he even took Taxilla. To be used to cross the Hydaspes River. These boats arrived just after Alexander took Taxilla. Just as planned..perfect timing. 2. He ordered grain, also months ahead to be taken to the Hydaspes, the site where he would reach the river and Porus would also show up. The purpose of the grain was to deceive Porus into thinking Alexander would wait for the monsoons to pass and the snow melt to end when the river becomes narrower. But he was actually waiting to attack the moment the rain started. This grain arrived just after Alexander reached the Hydaspes. Just as planned...perfect timing. Alexander also made extra sure Porus saw from the other side of the bank the grain arriving, being unloaded, moved around, etc. 3. Alexander marched his entire army up and down the river, everyday returning to the same spot. Porus would shadow him everyday. Until Porus decided to stop shadowing and just setup watch posts along the river. Just as Alexander planned. 4. Then Alexander ordered his men to make tons of noise every night. This went on for a while until finally the monsoons rains started one night. That was exactly what Alexander was waiting for. That night he mobilized, but left a portion of his army and ordered them to be extra extra noisy. As noisy as a full army. This noise and the rain left Porus and his watch posts oblivious to Alexander's mobilization. Then he sent a small portion east along the river. To cross at a predetermined location. He himself left with the main contingent east, also to a predetermined crossing point. But first, he left an infantry contingent halfway and ordered them to only cross in the morning. Alexander crossed further over a big island. This was where those boats that were, commissioned years before and carried over land came in. He crossed and defeated Porus' son in the morning. He marched back west and met up with the second infantry portion who were left halfway. He sent in horse archers to stall Porus to allow both the first portion, now behind Porus, and Alexander's infantry to catch up. Then he feigned a full cavalry attack on Porus' left wing. Causing Porus to move his entire cavalry to his left wing. But Alexander swung left. Causing Porus to extend his line. Thinning it out. A portion his the cavalry continued on and around Porus' rear but Alexander swung right again. While the infantry finally clashed with Porus' line. The portion that crossed behind Porus finished Porus off. All this was pre-planned well in advance. Even the infantry was pre-prepared to fight elephants. Alexander chose to mobilized the moment the monsoons started for the noise canceling, to immobilize Porus' war chariots, and to render Porus' devastating extra long Bowman useless because of the mud. The elephants were also meant to be made less effective by the slippery mud, but after the chariots and Bowman saw their end, Porus moved to a spot suitably dry for his elephants. This is probably one of the most ingenious battles ever. Porus was being played like a fiddle even before Alexander entered the Punjab.

@@tylerdurden3722 I remember this battle from over 10 years ago so the time might be off. but I remember that Alexander kept sending patrols along the river and horas' soldier shadowed their movement everytime. so Alexander kept this up for weeks even months. until he decided to move his troops to the river crossing. when the indian soldiers saw men leaving the camp they just assumed that it was another patrol. brilliant deception on his part. I think it was my teacher who told me this.

@@TheChuckfuc Yap, that's the one. One can see how all his experiences accumulated up to that point. And he used all his skills in that Battle. Definitely his greatest battle. Imagine if he lived 30 more years.

Mate i told him myself IN PERSON... to wait.

CheatyTycoon 2 At least we took Science with us. Furthermore, diseases is rampant, along with the dumb admiral of my fleet.

you should have burned berlin

Except Alexander was a Queen, not an emperor.

Kitana Kojima WHOT?

Can't even take Sardinia and Sicily

This is late but another great history channel, Kings and Generals, has a good video on the battle of Grunwald

lol. they lost an ez winning battle. indian always oversmart haha

@@helloworld6989 dont try to be oversmart idiot if u dont know anything about him

@@suyashdhingra8716 right

@@helloworld6989 Porus lost bcoz due to the monsoon he couldn't use his best arsenal at their full potential at this battle

@@helloworld6989 It's Ironic that u are the one who's Oversmart here......LOL!

PG porus the great

Poras is Gret

Watch indian tv series Chandragupta Maurya

But the Arabs didn't have the Phalanx Formation...

I think they make a great team. I love Baz's accent, makes it feel real. But sadly, that's not what the internet wants...

I just watched a video of a Indian historian about this a little while ago

Because he was not an important king,he was just a miner tribal or Some village's leader,He was not important in Indian history until he gave a Good fight,And we have still many oral sayings for his bravery here in India👍

Also there's no mention of Alexander the taxila historians made fun of Alexander and refused to add him in the books of taxila

Only great king pushyamitra is mentioned who defeated the greeks

@@Indo-Aryan9644 laziness to mention

Totally agree, he drove Porus crazy every night until he gave up following the Macedonian's movements

Alexander got destroyed by Porus

@@atacama1000 He wasn't, Alexander lost 1,000 men, his opponent lost 12,000.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- it doesn't matter Alexander didn't get that territory anyways. If you search on google Alexander's territory then it stops just before the Indus river you'll see and he eventually lost even his eastern most territory to the Mauryan empire.

@@atacama1000 Porus became Alexander's satrap lmao

And porus still won.

@@atacama1000 please provide a peer reviewed source stating that Porus won.

@@atacama1000 Porus lost bruh

@@atacama1000 he lost