…Miletus, encouraged by the proximity of the …
Years: 334BCE - 334BCE
June
…Miletus, encouraged by the proximity of the Persian fleet, resists, Alexander takes the city in mid-334 by assault.
Refusing a naval battle, he disbands his own costly navy and announces that he will “defeat the Persian fleet on land,” by occupying the coastal cities to deprive the Persian fleet of its ports.
Locations
People
Groups
- Ionians
- Miletus (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Persian people
- Ephesus (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Greece, classical
- Greeks, Classical
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
- Corinth, League of
