From: "Adam Flinton" 

Alexander exploited one known weakness which was that the Persian kings
wanted to be close to the battle & were surrounded by their retinue
thus making rapid withdrawal difficult/impossible. He won by applying the
"GFD" (Go For Darius) principle where he got his heavy cavalry
together (basically heavily armoured hoplites on horses) & told them to
drive directly for darius & to catch & kill him. He knew that once
Darius (a) hed been seen to flee & (b) was caught & killed the
battle was won even thought the Persians had more people.

This is what won his major battle of Gaugamela.

Adam

"William F. Zachmann"  wrote in
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> >> As for the conquest of Persia by Xenophon.....
>
> You are now being terminally silly, Adam.  I said nothing about "the
> conquest of Persia by Xenophon".  I merely mentioned him incidentally as
he
> happens to be the chronicler of some early successes of some Greek
> mercenaries vs. the Persians.  Xenophon's account provides one of the
> earlier chronicles of the weaknesses of the Persians relative to the
> militiary organization of the (by then, post-classical) Greeks --
weaknesses
> subsequently exploited by Alexander
>
>

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