Fortress on the west bank of the Hyphasis (Beas) river
Alexandria (on the) Hyphasis was the name of the fortress on the west bank of the Hyphasis (Beas) river at which Alexander the Great stopped on 31 Aug 326 BCE in the course of his Indian campaign. It was on the eastern border of Alexander's empire. Today, it is near Amritsar, part of Punjab, India.[1][2][3][4]
Alexander's army, exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain, mutinied at the Hyphasis river and refused to march further east. Alexander, after a meeting with his officer, Coenus, and after hearing about the lament of his soldiers, eventually relented, being convinced that it was better to return.[5]
^Arrian, John Rooke; Arrian's History of the expedition of Alexander the Great: and conquest of Persia. J. Davis, 1813. 1813. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
^Nigel Cawthorne; Alexander the Great. Haus Publishing. 2004. ISBN 978-1-904341-56-7. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
^Waldemar Heckel; The wars of Alexander the Great, 336-323 B.C. Taylor & Francis. 2003. ISBN 978-0-415-96855-3. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
^Arrian, James S. Romm, Pamela Mensch; Alexander the Great: selections from Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius. Hackett Publishing. 2005. ISBN 978-0-87220-727-1. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
^The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian, Book VI, Chapter XXVII - The Answer of Coenus[non-primary source needed]
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