The Battle of Issus

In the year 334 B.C., Alexander was on the mountains of Southern Turkey, and he was looking for a safe way to get to the sea. However, Darius (the Persian king) decided to go and fight him, and his army. Those two armies met near a town called Issus, each army one side of the small Pinarus River. Alexander's army consisted of 30,000 soldiers, however Darius' army consisted of 100,000 soldiers. Parmenio was the general that led the Greek soldiers, and Alexander the Great was the one that led the right side, and that was the cavalry. After a little time from when the battle started, Alexander the Great decided to go after Darius himself, which caused Darius to be scared. When Darius saw Alexander cutting through Darius' soldiers and going after him, he was really scared and he ran away. When he was recognized running away (which was very
easy because he was the only one in a golden chariot), the Persian military declined. This battle was very important because Alexander the Great won because Darius was affraid, and that caused the Persian army to decline.


The drawing on the left shows an example of what the Issus battle looked like. As you can see, Alexander is on the left of the image, and Darius is in the middle of the image, and Alexander is going to him, and there ar some fallen chariots, which shows that Alexander was attacking them, while he was cutting through to get to Darius.