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