2-714-449 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Map Illustrating the Campaigns and Marches of Alexander the Great', 1890. Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, creating one of the largest empires of the ancient world. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]