Gaugamela

[ gaw-guh-mee-luh ]

noun

1. an ancient village in Assyria, E of Nineveh: Alexander the Great defeated Darius III here in 331 b.c. The battle is often mistakenly called “battle of Arbela.”

Example Sentences

Alexander the Great employed a variant of this strategy at the Battle of Gaugamela.

From Slate

The ensuing fight, the Battle of Gaugamela, saw Darius’s far greater force suffer such horrific losses that soon the Macedon kingdom would stretch from Greece to Pakistan.

From New York Times

Biggest single victory: the Battle of Gaugamela, in present-day Iraq.

From BBC

We need look no further than the battle of Raphia in 217 to see that these innovations had become widely established: here an Egyptian army beat the Seleucids in what was essentially a tactical rerun of the Battle of Gaugamela, all under the leadership of Ptolemy IV Philopator, who was surely no Alexander.

From Literature

But as a short-term political tactic, the maneuver rivals Alexander at Gaugamela.

From Time