Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse, was said to be descended from these mares.

He also began work on several history paintings: Alexander and Bucephalus and The Daughter of Jephthah in 1859 – 60 ; Sémiramis Building Babylon in 1860 ; and Young Spartans around 1860.

Alexander founds two cities there, Alexandria on the Indus or Alexandria Nicaea ( to celebrate his victory ) and Alexandria Bucephalous or Bucephala ( named after his horse Bucephalus, which dies there ); and Porus becomes his ally.

Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse was said to be descended from these mares.

Seleucus I coin depicting Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus.

He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bucephalus ' master.

Bucephalus or Bucephalas (; or Βουκεφάλας, from bous, " ox " and kephalē, " head " meaning " ox-head ") ( c. 355 BC – June 326 BC ) was Alexander the Great's horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity.

Alexander taming Bucephalus

A statue by John Steell showing Alexander taming Bucephalus

As one of his chargers, Bucephalus served Alexander in numerous battles.

The value which Alexander placed on Bucephalus emulated his hero and supposed ancestor Achilles, who claimed that his horses were " known to excel all others — for they are immortal.

The legend of Bucephalus grew in association with that of Alexander, beginning with the fiction that they were born simultaneously: some of the later versions of the Alexander Romance also synchronized the hour of their death.

In the 2004 film Alexander, Bucephalus is portrayed by a Friesian, though unlikely to have been precisely of that type, as the northern European light draft breed did not develop until the 13th century, AD.

Alexander's horse was killed, although he was not at the time riding his beloved Bucephalus, either because Bucephalus was lame or because Alexander believed this battle to be too dangerous for Bucephalus.

Alexander then mounted his beloved horse Bucephalus at the head of his Companion cavalry and led a direct assault against Darius.

** Bucephala, or Alexandria Bucephalus, a city founded by Alexander the Great and named in honor of his horse, Bucephalus

In that context, he accepted a challenge from one of Alexander's most skilled soldiers named Coragus to fight in front of Alexander and the troops in armed combat.

Alexander the Great strongly promoted shaving during his reign in the 4th century BCE to avoid " dangerous beard-grabbing in combat ", and because he believed it looked tidier.

Lafayette's 400 men on the American right took redoubt 9 after Alexander Hamilton's forces had charged redoubt 10, in hand-to-hand combat.

Alexander was the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge, on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and is also noted for his early use of signals and observation balloons during combat.

At the First Battle of Bull Run, Alexander made history by being the first to use signal flags to transmit a message during combat over a long distance.

During the early days of the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, Alexander continued as chief of ordnance under Johnston, but he also participated in the combat at the Battle of Williamsburg, under Maj. Gen. James Longstreet.

By the second half of October, it was becoming increasingly clear to Alexander that despite the dogged fighting in the waterlogged plain of Romagna and the streaming mountains of the central Apennines, with the autumn well advanced and exhaustion and combat losses increasingly affecting his forces ' capabilities, no breakthrough was going to occur before the winter weather returned.

One of the most notable defeats to the Persian scythed chariot was in combat against the Macedonian phalanx led by Alexander the Great.

Meanwhile, the EAS Alexander is locked in combat with the EAS Clarkstown.

Ironically, the first use in combat of Myer's signaling system was by Confederate Captain Edward Porter Alexander at the First Battle of Bull Run.

Over the course of the series Zack is revealed to be honest, trustworthy, reliable, a tough and skilled fighter in hand-to-hand combat, a trained Starfury pilot, and rather unlucky in romantic situations ( striking out rather quickly, if inadvertently, with Lyta Alexander in the made for TV movie Thirdspace ).

Whatever the number of contract soldiers, commentators such as Alexander Goltz are pessimistic that many more combat ready units will result, as senior officers " see no difference between professional NCOs, ... versus conscripts who have been drilled in training schools for less than six months.

After the abdication of the Tsar in March 1917, she was charged with creating an all-female combat unit by Minister of War Alexander Kerensky.

The 79 original members included all Companions of the Order of Icarus, all who had been awarded the Trans-Canada ( McKee ) Trophy, all recipients of the Victoria Cross in aerial combat, Alexander Graham Bell and F. W.

With the help of the governor of Krasnodar Kray Alexander Tkachev, the host has become an integral part of the Kuban life, there are joint combat training operations with the Russian Army, policing of the rural areas with the Militsiya, preparation of local youth for the draft service.

Alexander, son of Calvagh, son of Turlough, son of John Carragh Mac Donnell, was slain in a combat by Theobald Boy Mac Seoinin, in the gateway of Galway ; and there were not many sons of gallowglasses in Ireland at that time who were more wealthy, or who were more bountiful and munificent than he.

On January 12, amid fierce fighting, 2nd Lt. Alexander R. Nininger, a platoon leader in the 57th Infantry, with uncommon valor, sacrificed his life when, armed with only a rifle and hand grenades, he forced his way into enemy foxholes during hand-to-hand combat, permitting his unit to retake Abucay Hacienda ; for his actions he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

While she does not partake in the slaughter of the SWAT team, she aides Alucard in his combat with Tubalcain Alhambra and later attempts to fight Alexander Anderson ( though her attack is comically cut short ).

Later, in the Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special, she helps to combat the global prison break that Alexander Luthor, Jr. orchestrates.

He was distinguished for his bravery, and in the battle of Issus, 333 BC, took a prominent part in the combat in defence of the king, when attacked by the Macedonian cavalry under Alexander himself, as shown in the celebrated Alexander Mosaic found in Pompeii.

* Extracts from a book about Soviet and Russian combat divers by Alexander Rzhavin Senior who served in the Soviet Naval Spetsnaz in from 1973 to 1976.

Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

but Leger, Arp, Lipchitz and Alexander Calder, at the time, gave him their blessing.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists.

Hostile glances were flashed at both Alexander and Gansevoort.

He leaned closer to Alexander, squinting up at him from the deck.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

In 334 BC, Alexander I, at the request of the Greek colony of Taras ( in Magna Graecia ), crossed over into Italy, to aid them in battle against several Italic tribes, the Lucanians and Bruttii.

He reports there that as Alexander of Epirus lay mortally wounded on the battlefield at Pandosia he compared his fortunes to those of his famous nephew and said that the latter " waged war against women ".

Alexander governed tyrannically, and according to Diodorus, differently from the former rulers, but Polyphron, at least, seems to have set him the example.

On arrival of Pelopidas at Larissa, whence according to Diodorus, he dislodged the Macedonian garrison, Alexander presented himself and offered submission.

When Pelopidas expressed indignation at the tales of Alexander's profligacy and cruelty, Alexander took alarm and fled.

If the death of Epaminondas in 362 BC freed Athens from fear of Thebes, it appears at the same time to have exposed it to further aggression from Alexander of Pherae, who made a piratical raid on Tinos and other cities of the Cyclades, plundering them, and making slaves of the inhabitants.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

* Alexander at Find-A-Grave

In more ordinary cases Tsar Alexander III could be at once kind, simple, and even almost homely.

Alexander did not remarry and Walter Bower wrote that he planned an Augustinian Priory at the Eilean nam Ban dedicated to Sybilla's memory, and he may have taken steps to have her venerated.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland says that Alexander was holding court at Invergowrie when he was attacked by " men of the Isles ".

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.