Alexander swam across the granicus, beat the Persians and immortalized himself."
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
The fight lasted little longer than at granicus and the result was as decisive a butchery.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
To hordes drawn from fighting tribes living as far distant as frontiers of India, banks of the Oxus, and foothills of the Caucasus, was added a phalanx of hireling Greeks more than three times as numerous as that which had been cut up on the granicus.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
