Battle of the Granicus River in Anatolia (Persian Empire): Alexander the Great, at the beginning of the campaign that will make him Great, risks death: on his horse Bucephalus (bull’s head), he receives an axe blow to the head from Spithridates, a Persian nobleman; only the intervention of Cleito (later and thousands of kilometers later, he was killed by Alexander himself in a brawl after a drunken bout) saves the Macedonian king.
