Decisive battle between Alexander the Great and Persian Empire led by Darius Codomannus, near the village of Gaugamela.
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in the video you forgot the allied hoplites that alexander had behind the phalangites in wedge formation to defend if the line was broke up or a lot enemies attacked from the sides!
persian empire must at least had 200000 soldiers! to believe they had around 70000 sounds rediculus cause it was huuuugeeee
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What a boss
just perfect! Much better and richier than History Channel's documentaries.
PERSIAN CHARIOTS NED! ON AN OPEN FIELD!!!
Alexander's troops caught a Persian scouting party and "found out" that Darius was camping 30 kilometers to the east. Lol "found out"
I can see about 5 ways how that battle can be won by Darius
Great video!!, what program do you use?
Do Battle at Marathon And Battle at Salamis.
ILLYRIAN SOLDIER IN MIDDLE
For al fucking retards and idiots out there who refuse to recognize the Greekness of the Macedonians, why don't you open your bible and read the book of Daniel where its clearly written By God's own word, that the Bronze belly and thighs of the statue of prophecy, were meant to symbolize Greece!!! and the Greek one horned goat defeated the Median-Persian Ram is a reference to Alexander the Great himself!! Conclusion: God PROPHESIED about the Greek kingdom of Alexander the Great, so God himself calls the Macedonians Greek!!!!
Really good video, but I think you got one detail wrong. Alexander's right, the cavalry, does not engage the opposing cavalry commanded by Bessus straight away. Initially it's a wild good chase futher on the right, orchestrated by Alexander. The charge of the chariots in the center is contemporary to that, immediatelly followed by the charge of the immortals on the phalanx.
The whole point of the wild goose chase is to gain time until the immortals engage the center phalanx. This was the gap Alexander was waiting for: Darius being left unprotected (relatively) in the center. Once the immortals started engaging the Macedonian center, Alexander broke away from his right, charging towards the center looking for Darius, that's when the Macedonian cavalry on the right, combined with the hypaspists, engaged Bessus Bactrians who were dumbfounded by Alexander's move.
The goal of the Macedonian cavalry and the hypaspists on the right was not to rout the opposing side, but to keep the busy long enouhg for Alexander to reach Darius and kill him. Once Darius fled, followed by the reserves, Bessus noticed and withdrew too.
Aleksander in his blood for the mother is illyrian
darius: hah shows you, we razed the most developed part of our country so you can't pass
alexander: what?
Wait the statistics show that 40x more men died on the persian side, that means that each macedonian soldier needed to kill 40 men to achieve that. WHAT!?
The macedonians taught those persian goatfuckers a lesson
you put out the light infantry equipped with slingers and javelins hidden behinid alexander out of the illustrations. why ?
Alexander the Great Pedosexual
even got the eagle flying overhead lol brilliant
Really amazing videos, thank you!
Any chance that you could put your sources into the describtion? would be very much apriciated 🙂
How come I only found this channel now!?
Straight dope it is
Love your videos, could you provide your sources please.
09:44 Nice b8 m8, i r8 8/8
ahhhgg 10000 immortal infantry at gaugamela no no no
Love the videos. Editing is soo good. Simple yet interesting !
how did you show the diagram of the troops marching? I am making a school presentation and want to include that.
Just discovered this channel, and really liked the video. Liked and subscribed.
It's 'darry-us' not 'dar-aye-us'. The vids are good the but pronunciation is shocking.
The Macedonians were NOT Greeks – Episode 1 (out of 40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGE44Fn3yEI
Alexander must have had a lot of trouble walking with those humongous balls flopping around.
It would help if you somehow made distances and elevations more clear. Otherwise it's just icons moving on a table.
First of all Alekxander was not greek but Macedonian ….
I like the voice of the narrator 🙂 so soothing 🙂
Arrian wrote 1.000.000 persians not only 100.000.
What is the source of your numbers?
50.000 Greeks / 1.000.000 soldiers from all over the persian empire.
Persians had a tradition of assembling huge armies. And this was the most decisive battle for the survival of their empire. Persian empire had the 1/3 of the entire population of the planet back then.
Battle of Issus = 600.000
Battle of Gaugamela = 1.000.000
Better than history channel.
It is really simple.
at 4:28 it is clearly stated thad Alexander had the high ground.
Obi-Wan Kenobi approves.
Alexander wasnt a great military genius, his opponents where stupid. You outnumber him in cavalry/mobility and you cant outflank or pressure your enemy, what a weak lord
How did Alexander's left flank holdout the Persians?
Im surprised you didn't cover the siege of Gaza where Alexander got stabbed in his shoulder.
Poor Parmenion killed because of his son.
I do wonder how true the assassination plot against Alexander was, in which Philotas, was found guilty ?