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Excerpt from The Ancient History, Vol. 5 of 8: Of the Eqyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians XV. Alexander sets out for India. A digression with regard to that country. He he sieges and takes several cities which appeared im pregnable, and is often Ill danger of his life. He crosses the river Indus, and afterwards the Hy despes, and gains a sig nal victory over Poms, whom he restores to his throne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.