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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt:... own subjects had turned against him. Disgusted at his cowardice, they formed a plot to seize and cast him in chains and proclaim his cousin Bessus instead. When the conspirators learned that Alexander had murdered by started in pursuit they stabbed their royal his own prisoner and left him to die alone. Alexander subjects, 330 found the dead monarch lying stark on the ground, and in pity he threw over him his royal mantle. Here our story rightly ends. Alexander had avenged Greece; the long quarrel between East and the conflict West had ended in the triumph of Europe. between But Alexander had drunk too deep of war Europe and and conquest ever to rest while life remained. Asia. There were yet lands to the East which belonged to the Persian domain, and thither Bessus, the murderer of Darius, had fled. Alexander marched on Conouests in throuf?h Turkestan and Afghanistan, where he the Far East, founded the cities we now call Kandahar and 330_325 B C. Kabul; twice he crossed the Hindu Koosh, and he made his way over the Khyber Pass into the Punjaub. He captured Bessus and put him to death; he married Roxane, a princess of Bactria, but no desire for rest arose in Alexander. At last his army grew weary of the ceaseless marching and fighting, and forced him to retrace his steps. Before he turned westward he celebrated the Olympic Games on the banks of the Sutlej, to mark the farthest limit where the power of Hellas extended. He returned to Babylon by a new route, exploring as he went; but it seemed as though Death of DEGREESe zes DEGREES of DEGREESe were gone when once he Alexander, turned his face westward, and he died of a 323 B.C. fever at Babylon in the year 323, at the age of thirty-two. Alexander left behind him one infant son, but only a