The Gedrosian desert march
325 BCE · Event
Returning from India along the Makran coast, Alexander leads his army through sixty days of the Gedrosian desert — heat, thirst and flash floods killing more of his soldiers than every battle of the campaign combined. Vanity, punishment, or logistics gone wrong: the sources still argue.
On these timelines: Alexander the Great's Conquests, Ancient Greece, Master, Persia and Iran
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