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 | | He wanted everything, so in the spring of the year 327 BC, he could be seen on the mountainous slopes of Hindu-Kush, somewhere between Pakistan and the Nuristan Afghanistan. |
 | | Thus, on approximately 21st of May of the year 237 BC, on a sunny weather, on the river Jhelum (Hydaspes), swollen with the melted snow and the Himalayan glaciers, Alexander built a floating bridge, surprising Porus' son, who thought that 2,000 people and 50 chariots would strike terror into the Macedonians. |
 | | Now, after 1700 years (327 BC), the valley witnessed another massacre; Porus escaped with his life. |
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