Despite Alexander's overall plan for Diadem requiring VI Corps to strike inland and cut Route 6, Clark asked Truscott to prepare alternatives and to be ready to switch from one to another at 48 hours ' notice.

Alexander's plan was to firstly establish his forces on a line between Licata in the west and Catania in the east before embarking on operations to reduce the rest of the island.

Alexander's original plan — as formulated by his Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General John Harding — was to storm the Gothic Line in the center, where most of his forces were already concentrated.

He drafted a constitution for the Russian empire that mirrored the constitution suggested by Speransky ; unlike Speransky's, Novosiltsev's constitutional suggestion had been accepted by Alexander but the plan was abandoned after Alexander's death in 1825.

Alexander's reluctance compelled him ‘ to abandon the colossal plan of one foot in England, the other in Holland ’ ( Barings archives, DEP193. 17. 1, Baring to Shelburne, 9 Oct 1802 ).

Upon Alexander's death, anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens once again flared.

The revolution of Plovdiv ( 18 September 1885 ), which brought about the union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria, took place with Alexander's consent, and he at once assumed the government of the province.

Several themes of myth converged on the chariot, as Robin Lane Fox remarks: Midas was connected in legend with Alexander's native Macedonia, where the lowland " Gardens of Midas " still bore his name, and the Phrygian tribes were rightly remembered as having once dwelt in Macedonia.

The entire region was heavily contested between the successor states of Alexander's empire, the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt, during the six Syrian Wars of the 3rd – 1st centuries BCE: " After two centuries of peace under the Persians, the Hebrew state found itself once more caught in the middle of power struggles between two great empires: the Seleucid state with its capital in Syria to the north and the Ptolemaic state, with its capital in Egypt to the south ... Between 319 and 302 BCE, Jerusalem changed hands seven times.

Athens plots to fight back against Macedonia, doubting Alexander's strength, but relents once Macedonia defeats Thebes in battle.

Steven Pressfield's novel The Virtues Of War depicts Parmenion as a loyal and brilliant servant of Macedon and a personal friend of Alexander, who only once openly protests Alexander's orientalisation.

Midland Scottish, itself a fellow SBG subsidiary and once also part of the Alexander's company, had continued to use the same logo, and as it rebranded itself as Midland Bluebird, Northern Scottish began trading as Bluebird Northern.

In 332, Alexander's admiral Hegelochus of Macedon retook Lesbos from the Persians once and for all and brought Eurysilaus and Agonippus to be tried before Alexander in Egypt, where he left their fate in the hands of the newly restored Eresian democracy.

Located at 731 Lexington Avenue, the building occupies the same block where Alexander's department store once stood.

Alexander's claims were recognized by the Roman Senate, Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt and others.

The case of Thurgot's would-be successor Eadmer shows that Alexander's wishes were not always accepted by the religious community, perhaps because Eadmer had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph d ' Escures, rather than Thurstan of York.

By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

Alexander's mathematical concepts and orientation were similar to Edsger Dijkstra's influential A Discipline of Programming.

There, two of Alexander's instructors — the future field marshals Alan Brooke and Bernard Montgomery — were unimpressed by him.

Macmillan thought Alexander's urbane manner and willingness to discuss and compromise were a sensible way to maintain inter-Allied cooperation, but Alexander's reserve was such that some thought him empty of strategic ideas and unable to make decisions.

The armies of the early Hellenistic period were equipped and fought mainly in the same style as Alexander's.

Henry's unsuccessful attempts to persuade his subjects to pay the taxes required to meet Alexander's demands were one of the factors in the conflict between the king and parliament which culminated in the Second Barons ' War.

Saint Quirinus of Neuss, who was Alexander's supposed jailer, and Quirinus ' daughter Saint Balbina were also among his converts.

It was common among the Macedonian upper class at the time of Alexander the Great, and there were several of this name among Alexander's army, one of whom made himself King of Egypt in 323 BC: Ptolemy I Soter.

Although the ancient Vedas of India specified how the ecliptic was to be divided into twenty-eight nakshatra, Indian constellation patterns were ultimately borrowed from Greek ones sometime after Alexander's conquests in Asia in the 4th century BC.

The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person of Perdiccas in 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, who thereby became satraps, at the Partition of Babylon in 323 BC.

The buildings were mostly completed between 1152 when the monks arrived in Kirkstall and the end of Alexander's abbacy in 1182.

Seleucus ' Royal Hypaspistai were constantly under Alexander's eye and at his disposal.

The other parts of the country the Hydaspes, the farthest extent of Alexander's conquests were discovered and surveyed by Seleucus Nicator: namely

The cultural dominance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon ( 382-336 BC ), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other Greek dialects and the spread of its descendant, Koine, throughout Alexander's Hellenic empire.

: 7 ( 1 ) But Alexander's great mental endowments, that noble disposition, in which he surpassed all kings, that intrepidity in encountering dangers, his promptness in forming and carrying out plans, his good faith towards those who submitted to him, merciful treatment of his prisoners, temperance even in lawful and usual pleasures, were sullied by an excessive love of wine.

Probably it was not possible for Arrian to recover an accurate picture of Alexander's personality 400 years after his death, when most of his sources were partisan in one way or another.

Some of Alexander's policies on the Western border were continued by his grandson-in-law, Daumantas of Pskov, who was also beatified in the 16th century.

Other alterations and additions were made during the 17th century, including a modest brick house added onto the west end in 1639, perhaps intended as a home for Sir Alexander's bailiff, as he himself no longer used the hall as his main residence by that time.

Elsewhere, the monarchy's personnel were gradually replaced by enemies of Constantine I, and Alexander's allies were either imprisoned or distanced from him.

At the Bourbon restoration General Pozzo di Borgo became Russian ambassador at the Tuileries, and sought to secure a marriage between Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, and the Russian grandduchess Anna, Alexander's sister.

Alexander defeated each in turn, forcing Cleitus and Glaukias to flee with their armies, leaving Alexander's northern frontier secure.

The erasure of Richelieu's name from the list of prohibited émigrés who could not legally return to France, which Richelieu on his own had previously been unable to secure from Napoleon Bonaparte, was accorded on the request of Alexander's new imperial government, and in 1803 Alexander appointed him Governor of Odessa.

Ptolemy Philometor, who was Alexander's father-in-law, went over to his side, and Alexander was defeated in the battle of Antioch ( 145 BC ) in Syria, sometimes known as the battle of the Oenoparus.

Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.

His mother's chaplain and hagiographer Thurgot was named Bishop of Saint Andrews ( or Cell Rígmonaid ) in 1107, presumably by Alexander's order.

" The king referred to is Alexander's father, Malcolm III, and Domnall was Alexander's half brother.

Alexander's mother also opposed the marriage and was subsequently banished from the kingdom.

After Alexander's death, his strong realm was plunged into a period of darkness that would eventually lead to war with England.

It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother.

As emperor, Alexander's peace time reign was prosperous.

Alexander's father, Marcus Julius Gessius Marcianus was a Syrian Promagistrate.

Alexander's maternal great-aunt was empress Julia Domna ( also Maesa's younger sister ) and his great-uncle in marriage was emperor Lucius Septimius Severus.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

It was one of four dynasties established by Alexander's successors, the others being the Seleucid dynasty, Ptolemaic dynasty and Attalid dynasty.

For his contemporaries, however, Alexander's fame was his inexhaustible interest in disputation.

The effectiveness of this combined-arms system was most dramatically demonstrated in Alexander's conquest of Persia, Bactria, and northwestern India.

Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form was required reading for researchers in computer science throughout the 1960s.

Will Wright wrote that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his later game Spore.

As Alexander's Feast ( 1736 ) was well received, Handel made a transition to English choral works.

After Alexander's death, his loosely connected empire was divided.