The following autumn at Issus in the southeastern corner of Asia Minor, he utterly defeated a Persian army estimated at half a million men, and the great king, Darius III of Persia, fled, abandoning his family to Alexander’s hands.
उसी वर्ष की शीतऋतु में उसने पश्‍चिमी एशिया पर कब्ज़ा किया ।