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Battles BC - Alexander Lord of War 5/5

The Battle of Hydaspes River

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Alexander the Great (Battles B.C.) 1/4

Battles BC by History channel http://www.history-of-macedonia.com Alexander the Great never missed a chance to verify his pride for his Greek ancestry. His parents had Greek origins. Alexander considered himself as a Greek. He spoke Greek. He grew up and was educated from famous Greek teachers like Aristotle and had as his favourite book Iliad of Homer. He worshipped the same gods like the rest of Greeks. He undertook and accompliced to a military campaign based on the long-term hostility between Greeks and Persians, as leader of the Greeks. Both he and his army spread the ancient Greek language and culture to the fringes of India and therefore Alexander has justifiably been used for centuries as a symbol of Greek civilisation. ΕΛΛΑΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΑΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ ΠΕΛΛΑ ΑΙΓΕΣ ΒΕΡΓΙΝΑ ΑΡΓΟΣ ΚΑΡΑΝΟΣ ΓΑΥΓΑΜΗΛΑ HELLAS GREECE MAKEDONIA MACEDONIA MACEDOINE GREEK MAKEDON MACEDON MEGAS ALEXANDROS ALEXANDER THE GREAT PHILIPPOS PHILIP FILIPPOS AIGES PELLA VERGINA AIGES GREEK ANCIENT KINGDOM ARGOS KARANOS KARANUS ANCESTRY HYDASPES TAXILA PERSIA GAUGAMELA MAKEDONIJA

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Battles BC Alexander Lord of War 2/5

The Battle of Hydaspes River

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Battles BC - Alexander Lord of War 3/5

The Battle of Hydaspes River

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Battles BC - Alexander Lord of War 4/5

The Battle of Hydaspes River

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Clash of the Gods - Medusa Part3

Clash of the Gods - Medusa

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Clash of the Gods - Medusa Part2

Clash of the Gods - Medusa

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Clash of the Gods - Medusa part1

"Clash of the Gods - Medusa"

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Discovery Channel - War and Civilization (First Blood) 2/6

The fragmentary nature of Ancient Greece, with many competing city-states, increased the frequency of conflict, but conversely limited the scale of warfare. Unable to maintain professional armies, the city-states relied on their own citizens to fight. This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as citizens would need to return to their own professions (especially in the case of farmers, for example). Campaigns would therefore often be restricted to summer. Armies marched directly to their target, possibly agreed on by the antagonists. If battle was refused by one side, they would retreat to the city, in which case the attackers generally had to content themselves with ravaging the surrounding countryside, since siegecraft was undeveloped. When battles occurred, they were usually set piece and intended to be decisive. The battlefield would be flat and open, reducing the possibilities for complex tactical maneuvers. These battles were short, bloody, and brutal, and thus required a high degree of discipline. At least in the early classical period, other troops were less important: cavalry generally protected the flanks, when present at all, and both light infantry and missile troops were negligible. The phalanxes would approach each other in a steady, slow march to keep cohesion or rarely at a run, if the enemy was prone to panic. The two lines would remain at a small distance to be able to effectively use their spears, while the psiloi threw stones and javelins from behind their lines. If the "doratismos" (Greek for spear combat) was not decisive, then the lines would close and swords would be drawn out. The shields would clash and the first lines (protostates) would stab at their opponents, at the same time trying to keep in position. The ranks behind them would support them with their own spears and the mass of their shields gently pushing them, not to force them into the enemy formation but to keep them steady and in place. At certain points, a command would be given to the phalanx or a part thereof to collectively take a certain number of steps forward (ranging from half to multiple steps). This was the famed "othismos". At this point, the phalanx would put its collective weight to push back the enemy line and thus create fear and panic among its ranks. There could be multiple such instances of attempts to push, but it seems from the accounts of the ancients that these were perfectly orchestrated and attempted organized en mass. Battles rarely lasted more than an hour. Once one of the lines broke, the troops would generally flee from the field, sometimes chased by psiloi, peltasts or light cavalry. If a hoplite escaped, he would sometimes be forced to drop his cumbersome aspis, thereby disgracing himself to his friends and family (becoming a "ripsaspis", one who threw his shield). Casualties were slight compared to later battles, rarely amounting to more than 5% of the losing side, but the slain often included the most prominent citizens and generals who led from the front. Thus, the whole war could be decided by a single field battle; victory was enforced by ransoming the fallen back to the defeated, called the "Custom of The Greeks".

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WW2 - Invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia

Balkans Campaign The entry of Greece into the war was assured by Mussolini on May 5th 1940, when Italian troops garrisoned in Albania launched an invasion through the mountains of North-western Greece. Though small and inadequately equipped, the Greek army inflicted a series of crushing defeats on the Italians driving them back through the mountains and over the border into Albania. By mid January 1941, after a series of stunning counteroffensives, the Greeks had crossed the Albanian frontier and driven the Italians from the southernmost quarter of the country. The humiliation of Italy infuriated Hitler who had long opposed Mussolini's Balkan ambitions, and had planned to secure peace in the region through diplomacy. These plans had now become untenable. The attack on Greece had driven that country into the arms of Britain, and brought British troops back onto the continent of Europe. The security of Greece and the Balkans had become a priority for Hitler. Since the Autumn of 1940 he had been preparing in secret for an invasion of the Soviet Union in the Spring of 1941. To secure the flank of his offensive a German conquest of Greece had now become inevitable. A coup in Yugoslavia on March 26th and the subsequent defection of that country from the axis required that it too be conquered. On April 6th the campaign began with attacks on Greece and Yugoslavia from Austria, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. Code-named 'Operation Punishment' , the invasion of Yugoslavia was supported by air attacks on Belgrade which lasted almost uninterrupted for two days. As the Axis troops drove relentlessly towards the capital, the Luftwaffe attacked vital centres and installations disrupting communications and defences. The attack was quickly joined by Italian offensives across the Italian-Yugoslav border and from Albania. Under such weight of arms Yugoslav resistance began to falter. Within a week of the offensive Belgrade had fallen. In the air offensive on the capital 17,000 civilians had been killed, the city centre reduced to rubble. By April 17th the last units of the Yugoslav army had surrendered. The campaign in Yugoslavia had been an unqualified success for the Wehrmacht. At a cost of 151 killed and less than 400 wounded, the Germans had taken more than a quarter of a million prisoners. But the conquest of Yugoslavia was to prove merely the first act in a long drama of resistance. The defection of the Balkan state from his system of Alliances, Hitler had taken as a personal slight. His savage vengeance shocked the Yugoslavs and drove many to seek refuge in the mountainous interior of the country. Within weeks of the German occupation partisan units had begun to be forged and the nucleus of a partisan army established. In the South, the Greeks put up stiffer resistance. Invading from Bulgaria, the Germans were held for three days at the fortifications of the Metaxas line. But on the 9th of April, despite heroic Greek resistance and heavy casualities on both sides, the Germans broke through the lines capturing Salonika and cutting off 70,000 Greek troops in Eastern Thrace. West of the Mataxas line armoured and mechanised units of the German 12th Army, including the elite, mechanised S.S. Leibstandarte Division crossed into Greece from Yugoslavia and began a rapid encirclement of the Greek 1st Army in Albania. With most of the Greek forces cut off or captured, all that stood between the advancing axis divisions and Athens were the 70,000 troops of the British Expeditionary force. Hopelessly outmatched, the British were driven Southwards fighting a series of desperate rearguard actions, most notably at the passes of Thermopilae and Thebes. By April 27th the Germans had reached Athens and raised the swastika over the ancient heart of the city. In the ports of the Peloponese to the South-West, the British had begun reenbarking and, despite repeated attacks from the air, the evacuation from Greece was largely successful. By May 1st 51,000 troops had been rescued at the cost of four transports and two destroyers. But the campaign had been a setback for Britain. Unable to affect the outcome of the conflict, the British had been shocked by the energy and efficiency of the German advance. Vital equipment had had to be abandoned in the rout, and, although less than a thousand British soldiers lost their lives in battle, more than 7,000 were left behind and captured. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Italian_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Greece

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