Gaugamela

He says, that Gau signified in the language of the country a house: and that the purport of the word Gaugamela was the house of a camel.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

They were camped on a broad plain at a site called Gaugamela.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

They were camped on a broad plain at a site called Gaugamela.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

They were camped on a broad plain at a site called Gaugamela.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

From some of these who were made prisoners Alexander learned that Darius was encamped with his host on one of the extensive plains between the Tigris and the mountains of Kurdistan, near a village called Gaugamela (the Camel's House).

A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

There he met the Persian satrap Satibarzanes, a veteran commander at Gaugamela, who promptly surrendered to him.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Alexander had sent one of his officers directly to Susa after the battle at Gaugamela with a demand that the local Persian satrap, Abulites, prepare the city for surrender along with a stern warning to leave the treasury untouched.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Mazaeus, who just a few weeks before had led his troops against Alexander at Gaugamela, prostrated himself before his new lord along with his grown sons.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Ariobarzanes was an experienced war leader who had fought against Alexander at Gaugamela and was still loyal to Darius—but more to the point, he was still loyal to Persia.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Even before Gaugamela, the appointed ruler of Thrace, an experienced and spirited leader named Memnon, had launched a rebellion that stirred up the tribesmen from the mountains east of Macedonia.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011