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326 BC

Alexander the Great arrives in Punjab, crossing the Indus River; Battle of the Hydaspes River between 75,000 of Alexander’s soldiers (of which only 15,000 were Macedonians) and 50,000 Indian soldiers commanded by the mighty Porus; the Indian army also made use of numerous elephants: Alexander wins the most terrible of his battles but his army now wants to return