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It was a good program and the strategies shown were informative as well as entertaining.Congratulations.

But....

There was one big LIE in this program. The program claims that Alexander conquered the armies of India and was known as the King or Asia. This is a Lie. Alexander did not go on to conquer the Armies of India. The only army he defeated was that of Porous (King of Frontier India), But even here he was so badly beaten that he almost died, he managed to win but at a great cost.And this king was a small king in comparison to the Emperor of India Chandragupta who was atleast 10 times mightier than Porous. Alexander's armies revolted and refused to march into India fearing total rout and hence Alexander reluctantly had to return back defeated by his own men, and even his charisma could not take the fear of Indians out of his armies. He never became the conqueror of Asia, he only defeated the Persians, but he could not conquer the Indians, He did not even see the Chinese.I cannot hope that you will correct this mistake, but I wanted to let you know what the truth is.

regards,

Satish Rao.
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