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, once the beachheads were secure, was to split the island in half by thrusting north through the Caltanissetta and Enna region, to deny the central Sicily east-west lateral road.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

It was not until the fourth attempt that the Winter Line was breached by the Allies, and Alexander's forces moved on to capture Rome in June 1944, thereby achieving one of the strategic goals of the Italian campaign.

His forces outnumbered Alexander's soldiers by at least a 2 to 1 ratio, but Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee.

At the Battle of Issus, Darius III even caught Alexander by surprise and failed to defeat the Macedonian ( Alexander's ) forces.

When at Ecbatana, Darius learned of Alexander's approaching army, he decided to retreat to Bactria where he could better use his cavalry and mercenary forces on the more even ground of the plains of Asia.

* Pelopidas forces Alexander to abandon his alliance with Athens in favour of Thebes by threatening to support Alexander's brother-in-law, Ptolemy of Aloros.

Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commander Memnon of Rhodes ordered a counter-attack into Asia Minor in an attempt to sever Alexander's lines of supply and communication ; however, Antigonus defeated the Persian forces in three separate battles.

He survived the loss and remained with his king, whose routed army eluded Alexander's forces and spent the winter in Ecbatana.

Although Alexander's reign saw success after success for the Greek armies, it was eventually Atatürk's revolutionary forces who obtained victory in 1922.

After Alexander's forces successfully defeated the Persians at the Battle of the Granicus, Darius took personal charge of his army, gathered a large army from the depths of the empire, and maneuvered to cut the Greek line of supply, requiring Alexander to countermarch his forces, setting the stage for the battle near the mouth of the Pinarus River and south of the village of Issus.

Following this, the surviving Malli surrendered to Alexander's forces, and his beleaguered army moved on, conquering more Indian tribes along the way.

Obodas I knew that Alexander would attack, so was able to ambush Alexander's forces near Gaulane destroying the Judean army ( 90 BC ).

In 326 BCE, most of the dozen-odd political units of the former Gandhara / Kamboja fell to Alexander's forces.

The Dardanians managed to capture some cities but were eventually defeated later by Alexander's forces

In Epirus he joined forces with Olympias, Alexander's mother, and together they invaded Macedon again.

In Epirus he joined forces with Olympias, Alexander's mother, and together they invaded Macedon again.

When Porus reached the point where Alexander's army was arrayed, he deployed his forces and commenced the attack.

According to Green's interpretation, the riverbank was guarded by infantry, not cavalry, and Alexander's forces sustained heavy losses in the initial attempt to cross the river and were forced to retire.

This implied that Alexander's forces in Tunisia would invade Sardinia, that being the only other plausible target.

In 1242, Andrey joined his Suzdalian forces with Alexander's and saw action in the celebrated Battle on the Ice.

The political history of the following four years are poorly attested: we know that Lesbos changed hands several times between the Macedonian forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian forces of Memnon of Rhodes, that Memnon captured Methymna in 333 BCE, and that when Alexander's admiral Hegelochus recaptured Methymna in 332 BCE its tyrant was Aristonicus not Kleommis.