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390 The Illinois Wesleyan Magazine. of his dispositions in the battle were masterl}-. It almost seemed foolhardy in Alexander to attack this immense army with scarcely one man to the enemy's three, but success has always been held sufficient to justify risk. Porus was wounded in the battle, but tried to escape at its close. See ing- this, Alexander is said to have ridden after him on his celebrated horse, Bucephalus, but this noble animal fell in his tracks, and died from overexertion. Porus finally submitted and was treated ''as a king-" by Alexander. Taxiles and Porus were finally reconciled and made rulers over the terri tory conquered in the Five Rivers region. Alexander then moved to the foot hills of the Caucasus and cut ship-building timber and floated it down the river to Craterus at Nicaea and Bucephalia, towns which Alexander had founded, the former to commemorate the battle with Porus, the latter to commemorate the death of his beloved horse, Bucephalus. Then crossing the Acesines and the Hvdraotes, he found a number of republics whose people had joined forces to oppose him and who were assembled at Sangala, their principal city. This was captured after hard fighting and a sharp siege. VII.—ALEXANDER'S HOMEWARD MARCH. Wherever he went, the country submitted and Alexan der formed the bold design of crossing the Hyphasis and marching to the Ganges. But the Macedonian soldiers had determined to proceed no further. This was in July, 326 B. C. Recent events and Alexander's conduct toward the newly conquered rulers had not tended to reconcile the Macedonians to his policy. Everywhere they saw others preferred to them selves and their leader was more and more conforming his conduct to the habits and manners of an Oriental despot. It is but little wonder then that these brave troops felt that the Indus should be the eastern limits to their wanderings. They had grumbled before now, but Alexander paid no atten tion to their mutterings as long as they obeyed, and this they had always done. Whether he was present or absent, his generals had always done as commanded, and whether on difficult or easy missions, they had always accomplished the task on time but now, under Alexander's schemes of con quest, they had become unusually restless. It was the same policy which had shown itself in the plots of Philotas and Calisthenes, only now it showed itself in a different way—the .