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Granicus

noun
1.
The battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC).  Synonym: Battle of Granicus River.






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"Granicus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Plutarch that Alexander the Great, when he started for India, took with him but eighteen or twenty talents in gold, something like one hundred or one hundred and twenty thousand francs. Now, do you suppose that with these eighteen or twenty talents alone he fed his army, won the battle of Granicus, subdued Asia Minor, conquered Tyre, Gaza, Syria and Egypt, built Alexandria, penetrated to Lybia, had himself declared Son of Jupiter by the oracle of Ammon, penetrated as far as the Hyphases, and, when his soldiers refused to follow him further, returned to ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas



Words linked to "Granicus" :   Asia Minor, pitched battle, Anatolia



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