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.

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Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

Category: Philosophers and tutors of Alexander the Great

The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art.

* Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great

In the 4th century BC Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula, defeating the Persians.

In the latter part of the 4th century BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Alexander the Great threw a spear to Abydos while crossing the strait and claimed Asia as his own.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

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Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

Alexander the warrior and knight: the reverse side of Alexander II's Great Seal, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

* Alexander the Great, ancient Greek king and general

The most famous is Alexander the Great, who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC

Founded in 1856 by James Alexander Holden, in 1885 the establishment combined with the carriage builder Henry Frost to become Holden & Frost.

Amid the disturbances consequent upon the death of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), it took the combined pressures of all the ambassadors to induce Cesare Borgia to withdraw from Rome, so that an unpressured conclave might take place.

In the spring of 334 BC, Philip's heir, Alexander, who had himself been confirmed as Hegemon by the League of Corinth, invaded Asia Minor at the head of a combined Macedonian and Greek army.

In 1847 another part of Wilkes County was combined with parts of Caldwell County and Iredell County to become Alexander County.

In 1847 parts of Caldwell County, Iredell County, and Wilkes County were combined to form Alexander County.

He employed combined arms tactics, like Alexander or Pyhrrus, and his strategy was similar to the one employed by Quintus Fabius Maximus in the Second Punic War, ironically against Hannibal Barca, the eldest son of Hamilcar Barca in Italy during 217 BC.

Alexander City is the principal city of the Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Coosa and Tallapoosa counties and had a combined population of 53, 677 at the 2000 census.

The Lake Station Community Schools district consists of three elementary schools, Virgil I. Bailey, Carl J. Polk, Alexander and Hamilton, a preschool and 6th grade school combined named Central, and one combined junior and senior high school Thomas A. Edison Junior-Senior High School.

A Swedish-allied army under general Johan Baner decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army, led by Count Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Baner was helped by Swedish Count Lennart Torstenson and Scottish professional soldiers Alexander Leslie, later first Earl of Leven, James King, later first Lord Eythin, and John Ruthven.

The war would be decided on the continent, and the major land operations that sealed the swift French victory involved the Ulm Campaign, a large wheeling manoeuvre by the Grande Armée lasting from late August to mid-October that captured an entire Austrian army, and the decisive French victory over a combined Russo-Austrian force under Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in early December.

An article in British Birds by James Gilroy and Alexander Lees in September 2003 suggested that misorientation occurs in random directions, but differential survival in different directions combined with asymmetric observer coverage leads to the observed distribution of vagrants.

This evidence has helped to strengthen the view of some scholars, such as A. E. Vacalopoulos, who see these references, combined with a reevaluation of Byzantium's classical past, to be the genesis of Greek nationalismWith the loss of Constantinople, this comparison played on the idea of " hellenes surrounded by barbarians ; Choniates equated the Seljuk sultan killed by Theodore I with Xerxes, and patriarch Germanos II recalled the victory of John III Vatazes as another battle of Marathon or Salamis. In much the same way, Theodore II Laskaris compared his father's victories to those of Alexander the Great and proceeded to extol the martial values of contemporary “ Hellenes ”.

Alexander T. Brown and Herbert H. Franklin combined efforts and created a startup they named " Brown and Franklin " to commence building and promotion of the Franklin automobile.

This combined with the turmoil following Alexander the Great's death, prompted the Scordisci to turn their attention southward.

In 1867, Alexander Mitchell combined the M & PdC with the Milwaukee and St. Paul ( formerly the LaCrosse and Milwaukee ) under the name Milwaukee and St. Paul.

The Martini-Henry was a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British Army, combining the dropping-block action first developed by Henry O. Peabody ( in his Peabody rifle ) and improved by the Swiss designer Friedrich von Martini, whose work in bringing the cocking and striker mechanism all within the receiver greatly improved the operation of the rifle, which new iteration was combined with the polygonal barrel rifling designed by Scotsman Alexander Henry.

Sir Alexander Grant gave a further £ 100, 000 – making his combined donations the equivalent of around £ 6 million today – for a new library building to be constructed on George IV Bridge.

In his own work, Rickey combined his love of engineering and mechanics, Smith's graceful, yet solid, cubic forms, and the mobiles of Alexander Calder.

In 1845, Alexander Beresford Hope realised that this scheme could be combined with the project of the Cambridge Camden Society to found a model church.

These cavalry squadrons would sometimes be combined together in groups of two, three or four to form hipparchy which were commanded by a hipparch, though the whole Companion force was generally commanded by Alexander.

During his later campaigning, Alexander gradually reduced the importance of the phalanx and the sarissa, as he modified his combined use of arms to incorporate ' Asian ' weapons and troops, not specifically trained in Hellenistic battle tactics.

The latter applied for assistance to Alexander, king of Epirus, who crossed over into Italy with an army, and carried on the war for several successive campaigns, during which he reduced Heraclea, Consentia ( modern Cosenza ), and Terina ; but finally perished in a battle against the combined forces of the Lucanians and Bruttians, near Pandosia, 326 BCE.