The Battle of Guagamela, which is also inaccurately called the Battle of Arbela, between Alexander the Great of Macedon and Darius III of Achaemenid Persia results in a massive victory for the Macedonians.
"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"