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Alexander's
last battle
The Hydaspes River 326 BC
Page 003
"Such
was the arrangement which Porus made of his forces. As soon as
Alexander observed that the Indians were drawn up in order of
battle, he stopped his cavalry from advancing farther, so that he
might take up the infantry as it kept on arriving; and even when the
phalanx in quick march had effected a junction with the cavalry, he
did not at once draw it out and lead it to the attack, not wishing
to hand over his men exhausted with fatigue and out of breath, to
the barbarians who were fresh and untired. On the contrary, he
caused his infantry to rest until their strength was recruited,
riding along round the lines to inspect them. When he had surveyed
the arrangement of the Indians, he resolved not to advance against
the centre, in front of which the elephants had been posted, and in
the gaps between them a dense phalanx of men; for he was alarmed at
the very arrangements which Porus had made here with that express
design."
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian, translated by E. J. Chinnock
Book V