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  • Battle of Gaugamela - March into the clash that changed an empire with Jack Maddox

    Battle of Gaugamela - March into the clash that changed an empire with Jack Maddox
    Apr 6 2026
    Join host Jack Maddox as he dissects the Battle of Gaugamela, where Alexander the Great's 47,000 soldiers shattered the Persian Empire in a single afternoon. Through ancient sources and modern military analysis, discover how brilliant tactics and desperate resolve collided to reshape the ancient world forever.

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    1 min
  • Battle of Gaugamela - The Day an Empire Died: How One Battle Remade the Ancient World

    Battle of Gaugamela - The Day an Empire Died: How One Battle Remade the Ancient World
    Apr 6 2026
    Host Jack Maddox explores how Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela in 331 BC destroyed the 200-year-old Achaemenid Empire in mere months—not through prolonged warfare, but by shattering its political legitimacy. From Babylon's surrender to Persepolis' burning to Darius III's betrayal by his own cousin, this episode examines history's most dramatic imperial collapse and the Hellenistic world it created.

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    30 mins
  • Battle of Gaugamela - Two Kings, One Battlefield: The Leadership That Won and Lost an Empire

    Battle of Gaugamela - Two Kings, One Battlefield: The Leadership That Won and Lost an Empire
    Apr 6 2026
    Host Jack Maddox examines the Battle of Gaugamela, where Alexander the Great destroyed the Persian Empire by charging directly at King Darius III. Through detailed analysis of ancient sources, the episode explores how these two leaders' contrasting philosophies—Alexander's instinct to attack versus Darius's careful planning and self-preservation—determined history's outcome when preparation met chaos on the Mesopotamian plain in 331 BC.

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    41 mins
  • Battle of Gaugamela - The Perfect Charge: Anatomy of a Tactical Masterpiece

    Battle of Gaugamela - The Perfect Charge: Anatomy of a Tactical Masterpiece
    Apr 6 2026
    Join Jack Maddox as he dissects the Battle of Gaugamela, October 1, 331 BC—where 25-year-old Alexander the Great faced a Persian army five times his size on a battlefield flattened for scythed chariots. Discover how one wedge cavalry charge through a momentary gap ended a 200-year empire in an afternoon of surgical military genius.

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    28 mins