The Battle That Destroyed Persia

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Alexander the Great, nearly lost everything within hours, but at Issus, the Persian army completely collapsed and the king of the empire fled the battlefield himself. In 333 BC, Darius III led a gigantic Persian army to crush Alexander and end the Macedonian invasion of Asia. The armies met inside a narrow plain near the Issus river, where the tight space became a disaster for the massive Persian army. The massive means three properly. Archers unable to Alexander personally led the companion cavalry toward the heart of the Persian army and smashed through the lines with terrifying speed amid chaos and screaming. Arrows and spears covered the sky. Soldiers fell by the thousands, while the land of Issus turned into a sea of blood, mud, and corpses. When Alexander approached the position of Darius, the Persian king lost control and fled the battlefield in his royal carriage.

[00:00:48]After Issus, the prestige of the Persian empire collapsed for the first time and the road to conquering the East opened Alexander before complete