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Topic: Guagamela (Arbela), Battle of
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Guagamela (Arbela), Battle of

Years: 331BCE - 331BCE

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"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)