Row 2528

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You are missing a lot of details on the battle of Guagamela by using an image as your basis. I suggest reading the account of the battle by arrian. The reason why he formed his army in an oblique order was to first and foremost avoid encirclement and also to make it easier to concentrate his forces on weaker enemy position which he does when he finds a gap and also to easily mix light troops with heavy infantry and cavalry to make his charge more effective. His left flank was positioned at an angle to avoid encirclement with reserve on rear and a contingent of cavalry on the van in close support if infantry on the left. He marches his army in an echelon formation to move past the level ground in which case Darius's chariots will be rendered useless. In advance of his cavalry he had half of the Agrianis and archers with slingers form in an oblique order to close up to infantry incase of envelopment and in advance of that he had allied Greek cavalry with light cavalry. As he marched in column the enemy cavalry came in contact with the light cavalry in the right but the greek cavalry mixed with what is described as the old guard of mercenaries and other lighter troops who were hidden from Persian view behind the cavalry repulsed them so the left of Persian cavalry tried to envelop the right wing but in doing so the flank of Persian left was exposed and he promptly siezed that moment and ordered light cavalry to attack on the flank while a gap was created in Persian center which he exploited. Alexander use of mixing light infantry with cavalry also helped protect his flank

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text You are missing a lot of details on the battle of Guagamela by using an image as your basis. I suggest reading the account of the battle by arrian. The reason why he formed his army in an oblique order was to first and foremost avoid encirclement and also to make it easier to concentrate his forces on weaker enemy position which he does when he finds a gap and also to easily mix light troops with heavy infantry and cavalry to make his charge more effective. His left flank was positioned at an an…
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