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1. 1

   Leaving Craterus at the camp to feign a crossing, Alexander marches about 27 km upstream by night, in a storm.

2. 2

   He crosses at a wooded island on skin floats and boats.

3. 3

   Porus's son rides to stop him; his chariots stick in the mud, and he is killed.

4. 4

   Alexander's cavalry strike the Indian left wing while Coenus's squadrons ride round behind and take the Indian cavalry in the rear.

5. 5

   The phalanx meets the elephants head on, and Porus's army is crushed between: the 'hammer and anvil'.

کدوں

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Armies

Alexander perhaps 40,000; Porus 20,000 to 50,000, with 85 to 200 elephants

After

Porus, captured, asked to be treated "as a king". Alexander gave him back his kingdom, and more.