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Gaugamela

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Gau·ga·me·la  (gôg-ml)
An ancient village of Assyria northeast of Nineveh. Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III here in 331 b.c.


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Stone erred on the side of accuracy when it came to staging the first of the film's two great action sequences, the battle of Gaugamela, in which 47,000 Greeks and Macedonians won the day against 250,000 Persians.
 
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