HISTORICAL BATTLES #1 -Jhelum/Hydaspes 326 BC

[Darth Malgus]

Brilliant thread, unfortunately not getting enough attention...

 

[Vishwamitra]

The evidences after math of Alexander, Purushottam battle points to the fact that Alexander did not achieve any of his objectives and returned to Greece on the terms of defender.

Porus defeated Alexander, how do you explain the presence of Greek soldiers and governors/generals in northwest India immediately after Alexander's invasion? The Greek general Eudemus was appointed by Alexander to command the troops he left in the Panjab, and sometime after Alexander's death, Eudemus was able to kill Porus and usurp his territories and wealth, including his war elephants (which he brought to Iran to participate in the Second Diadochi War on the side of Eumenes of Cardia). Sometime after the death of Eudemus following the Battle of Gabiene in 316 BCE, King Sandrocottus (Chandragupta Maurya) overran the Greek territories in northwest India, as he had suzerainty over the territories along the Indus when Seleucus Nicator launched his invasion of India in 305 BCE.

 

[Srinivas_K]

Porus defeated Alexander, how do you explain the presence of Greek soldiers and governors/generals in northwest India immediately after Alexander's invasion? The Greek general Eudemus was appointed by Alexander to command the troops he left in the Panjab, and sometime after Alexander's death, Eudemus was able to kill Porus and usurp his territories and wealth, including his war elephants (which he brought to Iran to participate in the Second Diadochi War on the side of Eumenes of Cardia). Sometime after the death of Eudemus following the Battle of Gabiene in 316 BCE, King Sandrocottus (Chandragupta Maurya) overran the Greek territories in northwest India, as he had suzerainty over the territories along the Indus when Seleucus Nicator launched his invasion of India in 305 BCE.

There are territories which are under the full control of Greeks like Bactria, The territories which Alexander wanted to conquer(regions adjacent to River Sindhu) were not fully under his control when he left for the Greece. There are rebellions all over the place. Peace only returned with Mouryan Empire when the greeks are conquered.