The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 04

CHAPTER LV

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THE CONQUEST OF INDIA (327-324 B.C.) 355

The war with Porus, 358. The eastern limit, 360. The march to the West, 362. The brave Mallians, 363. Alexander’s severe wound and the army’s grief, 365. The desert march, 367. Excesses and cruelties described by Curtius, 369. The return of Nearchus, 371.