And then the dummy killed most of them when they refused to go any further into India.
Few years ago I read about a tribe in Afghanistan who attributed their “religion & customs” to Alexander’s conquest. Lots of green & blue eyed people with light sandy hair - and not muslim.
I don’t recall ever reading where Alexander had any of his army killed except for individual instances.
I saw a program on one of the news channels where they interviewed Afghanis who still spoke of “Sander Khan” who conquered Afghanistan.
He didn’t kill most of them, he set up a marker “here Alexander stopped”, and they spent six months building ships to take a bunch of the army, and camp followers, back to Mesopotamia by sea. Once the ships were ready, he led the rest of the army along the Indus; they parted ways when the ships reached the Indian Ocean and sailed west. Most of the army left on the land marched back via a populated route, Big Al split off with some of his best and favorites and reconn’ed a really nasty piece of desert, where they all almost died of thirst. Eventually they reached Babylon, which is where he took ill and died.
The Afghans who claim descent (well, I think there’s more than one group that does, and there are probably literally tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of people throughout the old Persian/Alexandrian empire and successor Hellenistic kingdoms who are descended from members of that army and don’t know it) are the Black Pagans of Hindu Kush, the Kalash:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2025399/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2344909/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3050795/posts