How To Use Granicus In A Sentence

• Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Preface to Shakespeare
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• The Persian satrap was unable to stop him at the first major battle at the Granicus River.
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• He defeated the Persian Army in Asia Minor at Granicus, the Battle of Granicus, in 334.
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• His first chance to brandish it comes unexpectedly soon. At the river Granicus, he spies the army of a local governor, forty thousand Persian troops.
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• In the battle of the Granicus in 334 BC, the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire, Alexander came close to dying in combat.
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