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Alexander hunted down these commanders to unknown lands.
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Crossing even beyond the river Oxos, into Sogdia.
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We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia,
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Where only legendary heroes had once taught.
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The surveyors told us we were now in the
borders of where Europe and Asia meet.
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In fact, we were totally lost.
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Here Alexander founded his tenth Alexandria,
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..and settled it with veterans, their women, and
any who would dare the frontier life.
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Unable to accept defeat in any form,
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Alexander persisted in breaking every tribe that resisted,
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Until the day he received the head of his last enemy in surrender.
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For Alexander, there could be no pretender to the throne of Asia,
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..which now included all of Sogdia and Bactria.
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It was here that Alexander made one
of his most mysterious decisions.