Why would Alexander return without conquering India? Why didn't Alexander continue onwards to India?

Why would Alexander return without conquering India? Why didn't Alexander continue onwards to India?

He didn't even need his current Macedonian infantry he had plenty of mercenaries andrm reinforcements from Macedonia and Greece were on the way.

Assuming this isn't some retarded bait, read about the Battle of the Hydaspes. He tried his hand at conquering India, and he was winning battles, but he was also taking very heavy casualties.

India wasn't a crumbling empire the way Achaemenid Persia was, so his successes were more muted. Thus after Hydaspes, his men revolted and wanted to go home.

He feared the Dravidian (Black) warrior

He won that battle easily, are you saying that it would have devolved into a war of attrition

Probably. Plus at some point he wouldn't be able to hold all that territory

> but he was also taking very heavy casualties.

lol dude, after his army revolted, he moved south and conquered the whole of Indus, roughly the size of fucking Pakistan, in just three months and, while this was happening, his army increased in size.

Not to mention that the pathetic crumbling of the Nanda Empire under the onslaught of the newly formed Maurya speaks volumes at how exaggerated the Nanda are in the primary sources.

Alexander had an additional 5000 Indian soldiers and 200 elephants before the Mallian Campaign.

Now, I am not saying he would've, but he sure as hell could've.

Blame his shortsightedass soldiery for not having a Hellenistic India in 315 BC.

>We're gonna win so much, you're gonna get tired of winning
Alexander was literally Trump.

Do you know anything? The mutiny? hello? noone wanted to go to India.
>He didn't even need his current Macedonian infantry
He didn't need is excellently trained force with all his most experience officers? You're a fucking idiot.

Fuck off mongrel with your meme president

t. Nigel Ahmed Muhwjidala

India was not the Persians. The soldiers had no reason to fight barbarians who historically had not attempted to subjugate them.
They had already fought a long war to liberate civilization and were ducking done.
Alexander wanted to continue but couldn't do it without his Greeks because they were the only think keeping the bandwagon cruelly united.
America has the same problem with training ANA and IAR forces all the training and new equipment in the world won't account for the inferiority of foreign soldiers because they simply, hate your guts.

Ran out of ballista's.

He feared the Punjabi warrior

Nobody can beat jungle nigger

he FEARED the mughal warrior

imagine being this much of an amerimuty

comparing alexander the great to a fucking obese mentally retarded faggot

Did he feared the Nanda empire's 6000 elephants? Porus gave his a scare with his meagre 200 elephants

>his army increased in size

that might have been a problem rather than a solution

>Hellenistic India in 315 BC.

wasnt that far off, wasnt directly controlled by, but was definitely heavily influenced by hellenic culture

>Not to mention that the pathetic crumbling of the Nanda Empire under the onslaught of the newly formed Maurya speaks volumes at how exaggerated the Nanda are in the primary sources.
The Maurya gained power by taking over the now Indo-Greek states and amassing an army of > 600K to challenge Nanda.

I don't think Alexander's 5000 or 200 elephants would be able to do anything to either of these giants.

why did he turn back? he could've had the sweet indian puci

He could have conquered the armies if India, but not the smell

/thread

I'd actually like to know when India actually lost their toilets.

During this time, they had toilets/sewers/etc

> The Maurya gained power by taking over the now Indo-Greek states and amassing an army of > 600K to challenge Nanda.

Trillions of billions of ktillions lol

The Nanda probably had about 100 000 in Total, the Maurya even less so.

The numbers are greatly exaggerated.

Also, the Greek army was actually armored unlike the basically naked Indian soldiery of the time.

Getting baited this hard

Clearly its a disadvantage but he could have kept moving with his mercenary ranks

>Maurya Empire
>50 million people
>has less than 100K soldiers

k e k

>its a lie
>damn chinks and poos have smaller army than the ubernesch like the greeks

>Maurya Empire
>50 million people

Dude, the Maurya were barely 1/15th their maximum size by the time they attacked the Nanda.

Fucking read stuff.

>Greek army was actually armored unlike the basically naked Indian soldiery of the time.
Source?

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What did the macedonians possibly have to gain by going on o India? They couldn't hold what they had, and it's the most boring part of the world they could have taken and only did so because of the ease of retransversing paths already laid by previous empires. And all that pure Macedonian blood got wasted like waves on the shore break not only by those who died in battle but trying to settle that much area genetically with men left behind at various stations is going to get nothing but mudblooded in one generation. Too over extended. Fucking stupid as it was. Conquering Persia (etc) is one thing. But then you go home. And you fucking salt the fields as you go and massacre everything for a buffer zone/problem solved. India? Lol.

So much /pol/ speak in this post it's disgusting.

>pure blood
>mudblood

muh ancestors! right kid.

Okay sjw I'm the pol, enjoy your egocentrism.