General Knowledge - Indian History - Discussion

Alexander the great and the porus was the great.

He had a great mankind.

The great Indian ruler.

Porous was brave and bold.

A very brave and chivalrous king -Porus.

Alexander fought with porus battle of hydaspes at the bank of river Jehlam.

Because Alexander defeated Porus you know he lives near Jhelum river that happen in river Jelum.

Actually I don't know about porus but because of all this comments I knew about porus thank you all who wrote comments here.

In BC 326 Alexander want to defeat poras. First he offered to come and accept my my rule. But porus refused his offer and become ready to fight. On the west bank of river they both are stayed.

Alexander have 30000 thousand warrior and Ambi produced 5000 warrior to Alexander. Porus have 30000 thousand warrior, 4000 thousand horse warrior, 200 hundred elephants and porus came to east bank of the river.

In this war porus was defeated by Alexander. After that Alexander gave his empire to porus.

The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River (Jhelum River) in the Punjab near Bhera. This battle is considered as Alexander's most costly by many historians, Peter Connolly notable amongst them. The battle resulted in a complete Macedonian victory and the annexation of the Punjab, which lay beyond the confines of the defeated Persian empire, into the Alexandrian Empire.

Alexander's decision to cross the monsoon-swollen river despite close Indian surveillance, in order to catch Porus' army in the flank, has been referred as one of his "masterpieces". Although victorious, it was also the most costly battle fought by the Macedonians. The resistance put up by King Porus and his men won the respect of Alexander, who asked Porus to become a Macedonian satrap.

The battle is historically significant for opening up India to Greek political (Seleucid, Greco-bactrian Indo-Greek) and cultural influences (Greco-Buddhist art), which continued to have an impact for many centuries.