Issus

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1. Issus - Noun

2. Issus - Proper noun

Meaning

a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III

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Darius did not actually take the field against Alexander’s army until a year and a half after Granicus, at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC. Source: Internet

His rather atypical Battle of Issus (or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich. Source: Internet

John Prevas, Envy of the Gods: Alexander's Ill-Fated Journey across Asia (Da Capo Press, 2004), 47. At the Battle of Issus, Darius III even caught Alexander by surprise and failed to defeat Alexander's forces. Source: Internet

It is told by Arrian that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces under Alexander’s attack and Darius, in his war-chariot, saw that it was cut off, he incontinently fled – indeed, he led the race for safety. Source: Internet

Prevas 48 Another source accounts that when Darius perceived the fierce attack of Alexander, as at Issus he turned his chariot around, and was the first to flee, Ulrich Wilcken, Alexander the Great. Source: Internet

Though outmanoeuvered by Darius' significantly larger army, he marched back to Cilicia, where he defeated Darius at Issus. Source: Internet

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