Perdiccas murdered on the Nile
320 BCE · Event
Invading Egypt to punish the body-snatching, the regent Perdiccas loses 2,000 men to the Nile's crocodiles and currents in a bungled crossing — and his own officers, Seleucus among them, kill him in his tent. The lesson every successor absorbs: there will be no regent, no empire, only what each man can hold.
On these timelines: The Wars of the Diadochi, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great's Conquests, Master
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