How Alexander the Great’s Genius ANNIHILATED Darius’s 100,000 in 3 Hours | Battle Of Gaugamela

Alexander didn’t win Gaugamela by luck—he designed the collapse. Before dawn he sidestepped right, forcing Darius to overextend on a broad, flattened field meant for scythed chariots. When the Persians bit, the Macedonians bled them with javelins and opened lanes for the chariots to pass harmlessly through. Then came the switch: on the refused left, Parmenion pinned Mazaeus; on the right, Alexander snapped the army into a Companion–cavalry wedge, sprinted into the growing gap between Persian center and left, and drove straight for Darius’s banner. One shock, then another—hammer-and-anvil as the phalanx ground forward and the wedge punched deep. The king’s chariot wavered, the line bent, and in roughly three blistering hours the “unbeatable” mass unraveled—standards turning, dust boiling, and the Great King in flight. Alexander wheeled back to rescue the left, then owned the field. That’s how one brain, a shifted line, and a perfectly-timed charge turned 100,000 into a broken army.

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