POD: 330 BC, Philotas partially manages to extricate himself from a plot against Alexander the Great (or to be more correct Alexander III of Macedon). Rather than being executed he is reassigned to command of a small fort. In OTL Philotas was tried and executed, after which his father Parmenio/Parmenion was assasinated on Alexander's orders
327:
-Alexander III takes Bactria and Sogdiana largely as per OTL
-Alexander III marries Roxane.
326:
-Battle of Hydaspes, as in OTL a Macedonian victory
325-323:
-Futher campaigns in India followed by the return to Babylon.
-Several Greek enclaves are established along the west coast of India
-Hephaestion and 15000 men return via the coast, 2000-4000 men are lost
322:
-Alexander III's favoured wife Roxane gives birth to a son, named Alexander.
-The engineer Diades of Larissa begins experiments with assorted flamible concoctions.
-Alexander appoints his general Parmenio Satrap of Lydia.
320:
-Alexander III returns to Greece, calls a meeting of the Pan-Hellenic Leauge in Corinth to declear his campaign against Persia finished.
-An attempt is made on Alexander III's life, his friend Hephaestion interposes himself between Alexander and the assasin and is killed. Demosthenes incites Athens to revolt claiming that Alexander III is dead.
319:
-Alexander III marches on Attica and defeats an Athenian force at Elusis.
-Support for Peace grows drastically in Athens but Demosthenes and his supporters seize Pireaus there by controling Athen's food supply and hence controling the city itself.
-A secret Embassy from Athens accepts peace with Alexander III.
-Seige of Pireaus, combined Macedonian and Athenian force beseige Pireaus for four months, first use of Diades' explosive powder (launched in barrels from catapults or used to blow up walls), Demosthenes flees to Italy with 25 triremes a week before the port falls. The seige results in the loss of around a third of Athens' naval and merchant vessels leading to the final decline of Athenian power.
-Alexander III's lesser wife Stateria (daughter of Darius) gives birth to a son named (in honour of Alexander III's murdered friend) Hephaestion
318:
-Demosthenes starts attempting to form a leauge of Italian and Sicilian city-states to resist Alexander III and hopefully to liberate Greece.
-Parmenio is killed while puting down a tribal disturbance in Lydia
315:
-Demosthenes efforts pay off in the formation of the leauge of Syracuse
-Diades of Larissa presents a proposal to Alexander III to make use of his explosive powder as a propellant in a primative cannon.
-Aristotle dies of old age.
-The historian Cleisthenes is dispatched as part of an embassy to an empire rumoured to exist east of India (i.e. China)
-Antipater is killed while putting down a tribal uprising in Illyria.
314:
-Alexander III gathers a force of 60000 infantry and 10000 cavalry (including 4000 from various ex-Persian territory) in Epirus for an invasion of Italy
-A Syracusan fleet attempt to preempt Alexander III's invasion but is destroyed in battle off Corcyra
-Alexander III lands in southern Italy and defeats a force of 32000 leauge of Syracuse Hoplites near Taranteum, the city is taken by storm a few days later
313:
-Alexander III marches on Posidonia with 35000 infantry and 6000 cavalry while Seleucus advances on Neapolis with 25000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. Posidonia falls to Alexander with little trouble but Neapolis manages to resist thanks to the timely arrival of reinforcements from Syracuse.
-A Macedonian force of 4000 infantry and 500 cavalry opperating to the north of Neapolis run into a Roman legion and are defeated.
-Reinforcements for Alexander III of 20000 infantry and 3000 cavalry arrive in Italy late in the year.
-Cleisthenes reaches China (at this stage in the middle of the waring states period), he estalishes contact with several of small states and starts writing a description of the land.
312:
-Alexander III takes 12000 infantry and 1500 cavalry to "punish the Roman barbarians", he encounters a force of 10000 Romans. The battle that follows is inconclusive, Alexander holds the field but takes heavy losses. Amoungst the captured Romans is the Consul who was commanding the army. Alexander III compliments the Consul on the way in which the Roman troops were handled and then offers a peace deal, return of the prisoners and dead and an offer of an alliance (with the added incentive of a gift of 50 talents of gold). The peace offer is rapidly accepted but the alliance still had to be approved.
-Alexander III returns to beseige Neapolis which falls after three months.
-A Macedonian force of 18000 infantry under Seleucus and a fleet of 14 Quinqueremes and 63 Triremes under Nearchus lands in Sicily. The landing is sucessful and the army advances rapidly but with the defeat of the fleet by 93 Triremes from Syracuse
the army is forced to retreat, 6000 infantry are left as a garison while 12000 withdraw to Italy.
-Cleisthenes hires a Junk and sails for Egypt via Malaysia and India, Cleisthenes purchases a cargo of Silk and Spices.
-Diades of Larissa start constructing cannons for Alexander III
310:
-Cleisthenes reaches Egypt and proceeds onto Italy to present Alexander III with a number of gifts from the various Chinese states including a number of Crossbows and a large volume of Spices and Silk
-The Macedonian garison on Sicily is overwhelmed, 4000 men are killed in battle and half of the survivors are executed.
-Alexander III attacks Heraclea. Amoungst the seige engines used are 10 cannon recently developed by Diades of Larissa (note: these cannons are roughly equivelent in design as those employed in the 14th and 15th centuries in OTL i.e. the vast majority consist of iron staves arranged in a circular patter and held togeather by hoops of bronze or iron). After four weeks of bombardment a breach is opened in the wall and the city is taken by storm.
-A small Macedonian force escorting three cannons and a supply of gunpowder and shot are attacked near Sybaris. The three cannons and several gunners are captured.
-Impressed with the performance of his cannons Alexander III orders a trio of massive cast bronze guns (think seige of Constantinople 1453 kind of big guns)
309:
-Production of cannon starts in Syracuse, by the end of the year a total of 13 have been built.
-Alexander III beseiges Sybaris. Thanks to the three guns captured off the Macedonians the year before Alexander III is unable to launch an all out assult despite creating a breach in the city wall and is forced to withdraw after four months.
-The Leauge of Syracuse requests a truce with Alexander III. Alexander III makes it clear that he is prepeared to accept a truce or indeed peace if Demosthenes is turned over him, the Leauge of Syracuse accepts.
-The Leauge of Syracuse starts reforming its army in the Macedonian fashion, this is by no means complete when the war restarts.
308:
-Alexander III meets Demosthenes, rather than executing him Alexander III decides to exile Demosthenes to the far east of his empire.
-Alexander III returns to Macedon with the vast majority of his army.
307:
-Demosthenes dies of old age in the city of Susa.
-The trio of bronze cannons ordered in 310 are delivered to Alexander with the addition of a pair of mortars
-The Leauge of Syracuse attacks Macedonian garisons in Italy, Alexander III responds by gathering a force of 45000 infantry and 6000 cavalry and sailing for Italy.
-Rome finally signs an alliance with Macedon.
-Alexander III's eldest son (also called Alexander) is appointed as Satrap of Egypt, althought in practice very little of the government of Egypt is placed in his hands.
306:
-Alexander III receives reinforcements of 34000 infantry and 3000 cavalry
-Alexander III meets a Leauge of Syracuse force of 46000 Hoplites (but very few cavalry) near Taranteum. Alexander occupies some high ground and his seige train pours destruction down on the approaching Hoplites. Over 30000 Leauge of Syracuse Hoplites are killed or captured.
-The vast majority of the Greek cities of southern Italy capitulate due to lacking any catapults etc.
305:
-Alexander III beseiges Sybaris. Sybaris is defended by a battery of 9 guns while Alexander's seige equipment includes 15 iron cannon, three massive bronze cannon and two bronze motars. The city is beseiged for 6 months before surrendering.
-Alexander III gathers a fleet for the invasion of Sicily
304:
-Alexander lands in Sicily with 33000 infantry and 5000 cavalry.
-Alexander III's eldest son (also called Alexander) is recalled from Egypt and takes command of the 1500 Bactrian cavalry in Sicily.
-Battle of Segesta. Alexander III with 35000 infantry (including 3000 Romans) and 5500 cavalry faces a Leauge of Syracuse force of 30000 infantry, 7000 Mercenary Phalangites and 2500 cavalry. Alexander victorious but 22000 enemy infantry escape.
303:
-Battle of Leontini, Alexander III routs a force of 11000 infantry.
-Battle of Catania, Alexander III takes a force of 10000 infantry and 3000 cavlry against a Leauge of Syracuse force of 11000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. Alexander is sevearly wounded.
-Seige of Syracuse, launched late in the year. Alexander is unable to personally lead due to his wounds.
302:
-Alexander III dies near Syracuse, his son Alexander IV ascends to the throne.
-Battle of Syracuse, Alexander IV attempts an all out assult which fails.
-With unrest increasing in other parts of his empire Alexander IV is forced to conclude a peace treaty with Syracuse which involves paying compensation of 2000 talents of gold and removing all forces in Sicily.
-Alexander IV sails for Asia to put down a rebellion in Phoenicia.
301:
-Alexander of Lyncestis leads a revolt of the old Macedonian nobility and has himself proclaimed king of Macedon.
-Alexander IV has Hephaestion arrested to avoid him becoming another would be usurper.
-Hephaestion escapes and has himself proclaimed king of Persia under the name Cyrus III
300:
-Hephaestion I leads 15000 Persian Infantry (including 2500 heavy infantry) and 7000 cavalry towards Mesopotamia, he meets an Alexandrian force of 8500 Infantry and 3000 cavalry under Ptolemy. The Persian heavy infantry is routed and almost completely destroyed but Ptolemy loses aproximatly 1000 of his cavalry.
-Cassander leads a Macedonian army of 16000 infantry and 3000 cavalry to drive Alexandrian forces out of south west Asia-Minor. He is initally very sucessful, defeating a force of 13000 infantry, 1200 cavalry and 60 Elephants under Perdiccas near the Cilician Gates (Perdiccas, 4200 infantry and 400 cavalry escaped). However while advancing into Phoenicia via the Syrian Gates Cassander is ambushed by Alexander IV with 5100 infantry and is attacked from behind by Perdiccas and 4200 infantry. 2000 infantry and 1300 cavalry manage to hack their way out throught Perdiccas' lines but the rest of the Macedonian army is lost and Cassander killed.
299:
-Alexander of Lyncestis leads a force of 21000 infantry and 4000 cavalry into Mesopotamia, he defeats a force of 14000 infantry and 4000 cavalry under Ptolemy near Carrhae before marching towards the coast. Alexander IV manages to gather a force of 24000 infantry and 2800 cavalry and meets Amyntas IV on the Euphrates. The resulting battle is inconclusive, both sides loose around 4000 men each. With news of a revolt brewing in Greece and a Persian army gathering near Susa Alexander IV and Amyntas IV agree to a truce.
-Alexander IV marches on Susa, overwhelms the city and slaughters the Persian army of 15000 men gathered their... only to discover that the army at Susa was a mere decoy to the massive army being gathered by Hephaestion I at Ecbatana.
-Hephaestion I advances into Mesopotamia with 58000 infantry (12000 Phalangites, 6000 Immortals and 40000 others) and 12000 cavalry. Perdiccas with 14000 infantry and 2000 cavalry attempts to intercept Hephaestion I's army but after a number of skirmishes are forced to retreat to Babylon.
298:
-Seige and Battle of Babylon. Hephaestion I with 58000 infantry and 12000 cavalry beseige Perdiccas with 14000 infantry and 2000 cavalry in Babylon for two months before being forced to retreat due to Alexander IV with 23000 infantry and 3100 cavalry advancing from the south and Seleucus with 12000 infantry and 1000 cavalry advancing from the north. However the retreat comes too late and the Persians are soon intercepted by Alexander IV. The Persians beat off Alexander IV's inital attacks causing heavy losses but with arrival of Seleucus and Perdiccas the Persians are surroundered and in the Persian tradition Hephaestion I flees the battle leaving his army to be destroyed.
-Large scale revolt in Greece and the Greek cities of Asia-Minor, staired up by the Leauge of Syracuse. The rebellion in Greece ends with the rout of 26000 Hoplites by a Macedonian force of 18000 infantry and 3000 cavalry under Philotas near Corinth.
297:
-Campaign by Alexander of Lyncestis and Lysimachus is Asia-Minor, one by one the major Greek cities are beseiged and retaken or conviced to side with Amyntas IV in return for their liberty.
-Alexander IV advances into Persia, he reoccupies Susa and advances on Pasargadae.
-Battle of Persepolis, near the burnt ruins of the former Persian capital an Alexandrian army of 9000 infantry and 2000 cavalry under Perdiccas are taken by suprise by 12000 Persian infantry and 5000 cavalry under Hephaestion I. Perdiccas' army is destroyed and Perdiccas himself is wounded and captured by Hephaestion I. Perdiccas is imprisoned in Ecbatana.
-Philotas sails for the Chersonesus Taurica (Crimea) with 17000 infantry and 2000 cavalry to bring the cities there under Macedonian control.
296:
-Cyprus revolts against Alexander IV and starts stirring up revolts along the coast with some sucess. The ports of Tyre, Sidon and Acre soon revolt. With news of the revolt Alexander IV signs a treaty with Hephaestion I establishing a buffer state between their empires. This buffer state stretches from the Tigris river to the Zargos mountains and is ruled from Susa by Craterus.
-Philotas besieges the Greek cities in the Crimea and by years end has established Macedonian control over the peninsula.
-Alexander IV marches to the coast and beseiges Sidon which falls after a five month seige.
-Alexander IV orders construction of six gun armed ships for the forthcoming seige of Tyre. Four of the ships boast three medium calibre iron guns (i.e. aproximatly similar to OTLs Demi-Cannon, firing a ball of 32 pounds/ 14.4 kg) while the remaining two are armed with a single large bronze cannon each.
295:
-Carthage dispatches a fleet of 21 Quinqueremes and 89 Triremes to support Tyre. The Carthaginian fleet is intercepted and destroyed by an Alexandrian fleet of 17 conventional Quinqueremes, 6 cannon armed Quinqueremes (one cannon similar to the 16th century Cannon-Royal (i.e. firing a ball of about 68 pounds/ 30.6 kg) plus anywhere from 2 to 6 swivel guns similar to the 16th century Robinet (i.e. firing a 0.5 pound/ 0.225 kg)) and 79 Triremes.
-Second Seige of Tyre, after four months of bombardment the city is taken by storm and all its population put to the sword.
-Acre surrenders to Alexander IV in order to avoid the fate of Tyre.
Edit to attatch map of Europe and near east in 295 BC
Orange=Carthage
Red=Rome
Dark Green=Macedon and dependent allies
Light Green=Independent Macedonian allies
Brown=Alexandrian Empire and dependent allies
Yellow=Independent Alexandrian allies
Purple=Persia
Blue=Leauge of Syracuse
327:
-Alexander III takes Bactria and Sogdiana largely as per OTL
-Alexander III marries Roxane.
326:
-Battle of Hydaspes, as in OTL a Macedonian victory
325-323:
-Futher campaigns in India followed by the return to Babylon.
-Several Greek enclaves are established along the west coast of India
-Hephaestion and 15000 men return via the coast, 2000-4000 men are lost
322:
-Alexander III's favoured wife Roxane gives birth to a son, named Alexander.
-The engineer Diades of Larissa begins experiments with assorted flamible concoctions.
-Alexander appoints his general Parmenio Satrap of Lydia.
320:
-Alexander III returns to Greece, calls a meeting of the Pan-Hellenic Leauge in Corinth to declear his campaign against Persia finished.
-An attempt is made on Alexander III's life, his friend Hephaestion interposes himself between Alexander and the assasin and is killed. Demosthenes incites Athens to revolt claiming that Alexander III is dead.
319:
-Alexander III marches on Attica and defeats an Athenian force at Elusis.
-Support for Peace grows drastically in Athens but Demosthenes and his supporters seize Pireaus there by controling Athen's food supply and hence controling the city itself.
-A secret Embassy from Athens accepts peace with Alexander III.
-Seige of Pireaus, combined Macedonian and Athenian force beseige Pireaus for four months, first use of Diades' explosive powder (launched in barrels from catapults or used to blow up walls), Demosthenes flees to Italy with 25 triremes a week before the port falls. The seige results in the loss of around a third of Athens' naval and merchant vessels leading to the final decline of Athenian power.
-Alexander III's lesser wife Stateria (daughter of Darius) gives birth to a son named (in honour of Alexander III's murdered friend) Hephaestion
318:
-Demosthenes starts attempting to form a leauge of Italian and Sicilian city-states to resist Alexander III and hopefully to liberate Greece.
-Parmenio is killed while puting down a tribal disturbance in Lydia
315:
-Demosthenes efforts pay off in the formation of the leauge of Syracuse
-Diades of Larissa presents a proposal to Alexander III to make use of his explosive powder as a propellant in a primative cannon.
-Aristotle dies of old age.
-The historian Cleisthenes is dispatched as part of an embassy to an empire rumoured to exist east of India (i.e. China)
-Antipater is killed while putting down a tribal uprising in Illyria.
314:
-Alexander III gathers a force of 60000 infantry and 10000 cavalry (including 4000 from various ex-Persian territory) in Epirus for an invasion of Italy
-A Syracusan fleet attempt to preempt Alexander III's invasion but is destroyed in battle off Corcyra
-Alexander III lands in southern Italy and defeats a force of 32000 leauge of Syracuse Hoplites near Taranteum, the city is taken by storm a few days later
313:
-Alexander III marches on Posidonia with 35000 infantry and 6000 cavalry while Seleucus advances on Neapolis with 25000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. Posidonia falls to Alexander with little trouble but Neapolis manages to resist thanks to the timely arrival of reinforcements from Syracuse.
-A Macedonian force of 4000 infantry and 500 cavalry opperating to the north of Neapolis run into a Roman legion and are defeated.
-Reinforcements for Alexander III of 20000 infantry and 3000 cavalry arrive in Italy late in the year.
-Cleisthenes reaches China (at this stage in the middle of the waring states period), he estalishes contact with several of small states and starts writing a description of the land.
312:
-Alexander III takes 12000 infantry and 1500 cavalry to "punish the Roman barbarians", he encounters a force of 10000 Romans. The battle that follows is inconclusive, Alexander holds the field but takes heavy losses. Amoungst the captured Romans is the Consul who was commanding the army. Alexander III compliments the Consul on the way in which the Roman troops were handled and then offers a peace deal, return of the prisoners and dead and an offer of an alliance (with the added incentive of a gift of 50 talents of gold). The peace offer is rapidly accepted but the alliance still had to be approved.
-Alexander III returns to beseige Neapolis which falls after three months.
-A Macedonian force of 18000 infantry under Seleucus and a fleet of 14 Quinqueremes and 63 Triremes under Nearchus lands in Sicily. The landing is sucessful and the army advances rapidly but with the defeat of the fleet by 93 Triremes from Syracuse
the army is forced to retreat, 6000 infantry are left as a garison while 12000 withdraw to Italy.
-Cleisthenes hires a Junk and sails for Egypt via Malaysia and India, Cleisthenes purchases a cargo of Silk and Spices.
-Diades of Larissa start constructing cannons for Alexander III
310:
-Cleisthenes reaches Egypt and proceeds onto Italy to present Alexander III with a number of gifts from the various Chinese states including a number of Crossbows and a large volume of Spices and Silk
-The Macedonian garison on Sicily is overwhelmed, 4000 men are killed in battle and half of the survivors are executed.
-Alexander III attacks Heraclea. Amoungst the seige engines used are 10 cannon recently developed by Diades of Larissa (note: these cannons are roughly equivelent in design as those employed in the 14th and 15th centuries in OTL i.e. the vast majority consist of iron staves arranged in a circular patter and held togeather by hoops of bronze or iron). After four weeks of bombardment a breach is opened in the wall and the city is taken by storm.
-A small Macedonian force escorting three cannons and a supply of gunpowder and shot are attacked near Sybaris. The three cannons and several gunners are captured.
-Impressed with the performance of his cannons Alexander III orders a trio of massive cast bronze guns (think seige of Constantinople 1453 kind of big guns)
309:
-Production of cannon starts in Syracuse, by the end of the year a total of 13 have been built.
-Alexander III beseiges Sybaris. Thanks to the three guns captured off the Macedonians the year before Alexander III is unable to launch an all out assult despite creating a breach in the city wall and is forced to withdraw after four months.
-The Leauge of Syracuse requests a truce with Alexander III. Alexander III makes it clear that he is prepeared to accept a truce or indeed peace if Demosthenes is turned over him, the Leauge of Syracuse accepts.
-The Leauge of Syracuse starts reforming its army in the Macedonian fashion, this is by no means complete when the war restarts.
308:
-Alexander III meets Demosthenes, rather than executing him Alexander III decides to exile Demosthenes to the far east of his empire.
-Alexander III returns to Macedon with the vast majority of his army.
307:
-Demosthenes dies of old age in the city of Susa.
-The trio of bronze cannons ordered in 310 are delivered to Alexander with the addition of a pair of mortars
-The Leauge of Syracuse attacks Macedonian garisons in Italy, Alexander III responds by gathering a force of 45000 infantry and 6000 cavalry and sailing for Italy.
-Rome finally signs an alliance with Macedon.
-Alexander III's eldest son (also called Alexander) is appointed as Satrap of Egypt, althought in practice very little of the government of Egypt is placed in his hands.
306:
-Alexander III receives reinforcements of 34000 infantry and 3000 cavalry
-Alexander III meets a Leauge of Syracuse force of 46000 Hoplites (but very few cavalry) near Taranteum. Alexander occupies some high ground and his seige train pours destruction down on the approaching Hoplites. Over 30000 Leauge of Syracuse Hoplites are killed or captured.
-The vast majority of the Greek cities of southern Italy capitulate due to lacking any catapults etc.
305:
-Alexander III beseiges Sybaris. Sybaris is defended by a battery of 9 guns while Alexander's seige equipment includes 15 iron cannon, three massive bronze cannon and two bronze motars. The city is beseiged for 6 months before surrendering.
-Alexander III gathers a fleet for the invasion of Sicily
304:
-Alexander lands in Sicily with 33000 infantry and 5000 cavalry.
-Alexander III's eldest son (also called Alexander) is recalled from Egypt and takes command of the 1500 Bactrian cavalry in Sicily.
-Battle of Segesta. Alexander III with 35000 infantry (including 3000 Romans) and 5500 cavalry faces a Leauge of Syracuse force of 30000 infantry, 7000 Mercenary Phalangites and 2500 cavalry. Alexander victorious but 22000 enemy infantry escape.
303:
-Battle of Leontini, Alexander III routs a force of 11000 infantry.
-Battle of Catania, Alexander III takes a force of 10000 infantry and 3000 cavlry against a Leauge of Syracuse force of 11000 infantry and 2000 cavalry. Alexander is sevearly wounded.
-Seige of Syracuse, launched late in the year. Alexander is unable to personally lead due to his wounds.
302:
-Alexander III dies near Syracuse, his son Alexander IV ascends to the throne.
-Battle of Syracuse, Alexander IV attempts an all out assult which fails.
-With unrest increasing in other parts of his empire Alexander IV is forced to conclude a peace treaty with Syracuse which involves paying compensation of 2000 talents of gold and removing all forces in Sicily.
-Alexander IV sails for Asia to put down a rebellion in Phoenicia.
301:
-Alexander of Lyncestis leads a revolt of the old Macedonian nobility and has himself proclaimed king of Macedon.
-Alexander IV has Hephaestion arrested to avoid him becoming another would be usurper.
-Hephaestion escapes and has himself proclaimed king of Persia under the name Cyrus III
300:
-Hephaestion I leads 15000 Persian Infantry (including 2500 heavy infantry) and 7000 cavalry towards Mesopotamia, he meets an Alexandrian force of 8500 Infantry and 3000 cavalry under Ptolemy. The Persian heavy infantry is routed and almost completely destroyed but Ptolemy loses aproximatly 1000 of his cavalry.
-Cassander leads a Macedonian army of 16000 infantry and 3000 cavalry to drive Alexandrian forces out of south west Asia-Minor. He is initally very sucessful, defeating a force of 13000 infantry, 1200 cavalry and 60 Elephants under Perdiccas near the Cilician Gates (Perdiccas, 4200 infantry and 400 cavalry escaped). However while advancing into Phoenicia via the Syrian Gates Cassander is ambushed by Alexander IV with 5100 infantry and is attacked from behind by Perdiccas and 4200 infantry. 2000 infantry and 1300 cavalry manage to hack their way out throught Perdiccas' lines but the rest of the Macedonian army is lost and Cassander killed.
299:
-Alexander of Lyncestis leads a force of 21000 infantry and 4000 cavalry into Mesopotamia, he defeats a force of 14000 infantry and 4000 cavalry under Ptolemy near Carrhae before marching towards the coast. Alexander IV manages to gather a force of 24000 infantry and 2800 cavalry and meets Amyntas IV on the Euphrates. The resulting battle is inconclusive, both sides loose around 4000 men each. With news of a revolt brewing in Greece and a Persian army gathering near Susa Alexander IV and Amyntas IV agree to a truce.
-Alexander IV marches on Susa, overwhelms the city and slaughters the Persian army of 15000 men gathered their... only to discover that the army at Susa was a mere decoy to the massive army being gathered by Hephaestion I at Ecbatana.
-Hephaestion I advances into Mesopotamia with 58000 infantry (12000 Phalangites, 6000 Immortals and 40000 others) and 12000 cavalry. Perdiccas with 14000 infantry and 2000 cavalry attempts to intercept Hephaestion I's army but after a number of skirmishes are forced to retreat to Babylon.
298:
-Seige and Battle of Babylon. Hephaestion I with 58000 infantry and 12000 cavalry beseige Perdiccas with 14000 infantry and 2000 cavalry in Babylon for two months before being forced to retreat due to Alexander IV with 23000 infantry and 3100 cavalry advancing from the south and Seleucus with 12000 infantry and 1000 cavalry advancing from the north. However the retreat comes too late and the Persians are soon intercepted by Alexander IV. The Persians beat off Alexander IV's inital attacks causing heavy losses but with arrival of Seleucus and Perdiccas the Persians are surroundered and in the Persian tradition Hephaestion I flees the battle leaving his army to be destroyed.
-Large scale revolt in Greece and the Greek cities of Asia-Minor, staired up by the Leauge of Syracuse. The rebellion in Greece ends with the rout of 26000 Hoplites by a Macedonian force of 18000 infantry and 3000 cavalry under Philotas near Corinth.
297:
-Campaign by Alexander of Lyncestis and Lysimachus is Asia-Minor, one by one the major Greek cities are beseiged and retaken or conviced to side with Amyntas IV in return for their liberty.
-Alexander IV advances into Persia, he reoccupies Susa and advances on Pasargadae.
-Battle of Persepolis, near the burnt ruins of the former Persian capital an Alexandrian army of 9000 infantry and 2000 cavalry under Perdiccas are taken by suprise by 12000 Persian infantry and 5000 cavalry under Hephaestion I. Perdiccas' army is destroyed and Perdiccas himself is wounded and captured by Hephaestion I. Perdiccas is imprisoned in Ecbatana.
-Philotas sails for the Chersonesus Taurica (Crimea) with 17000 infantry and 2000 cavalry to bring the cities there under Macedonian control.
296:
-Cyprus revolts against Alexander IV and starts stirring up revolts along the coast with some sucess. The ports of Tyre, Sidon and Acre soon revolt. With news of the revolt Alexander IV signs a treaty with Hephaestion I establishing a buffer state between their empires. This buffer state stretches from the Tigris river to the Zargos mountains and is ruled from Susa by Craterus.
-Philotas besieges the Greek cities in the Crimea and by years end has established Macedonian control over the peninsula.
-Alexander IV marches to the coast and beseiges Sidon which falls after a five month seige.
-Alexander IV orders construction of six gun armed ships for the forthcoming seige of Tyre. Four of the ships boast three medium calibre iron guns (i.e. aproximatly similar to OTLs Demi-Cannon, firing a ball of 32 pounds/ 14.4 kg) while the remaining two are armed with a single large bronze cannon each.
295:
-Carthage dispatches a fleet of 21 Quinqueremes and 89 Triremes to support Tyre. The Carthaginian fleet is intercepted and destroyed by an Alexandrian fleet of 17 conventional Quinqueremes, 6 cannon armed Quinqueremes (one cannon similar to the 16th century Cannon-Royal (i.e. firing a ball of about 68 pounds/ 30.6 kg) plus anywhere from 2 to 6 swivel guns similar to the 16th century Robinet (i.e. firing a 0.5 pound/ 0.225 kg)) and 79 Triremes.
-Second Seige of Tyre, after four months of bombardment the city is taken by storm and all its population put to the sword.
-Acre surrenders to Alexander IV in order to avoid the fate of Tyre.
Edit to attatch map of Europe and near east in 295 BC
Orange=Carthage
Red=Rome
Dark Green=Macedon and dependent allies
Light Green=Independent Macedonian allies
Brown=Alexandrian Empire and dependent allies
Yellow=Independent Alexandrian allies
Purple=Persia
Blue=Leauge of Syracuse
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