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I'm going to look at an answer, a question, and hopefully give some form of an answer from

Brendan in just a minute.

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Now, the question from Brendan is

the low casualty rate

that the Macedonian phalanx

suffers from arches at the Battle of

Isis and Gal Gamala. Why was the case

would make an interesting subject if I haven't

considered. Thank you,

Brandon. And indeed, the casualties of Alexander the Great's battles are very interesting and also

quite problematic. So doing some quick jotting, we've got the three major battles. So we'll

do Granicus, Isis, and Galgamela. There are, of course, battles later on in Alexander's campaigns.

But these three have the widest range of sources available and the widest, unfortunately,

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