Fortress on the west bank of the Hyphasis (Beas) river
Alexandria (on the) Hyphasis was the name of the fortress on the west bank of the
Hyphasis (Beas) river at which
Alexander the Great stopped on 31 Aug 326 BCE in the course of his
Indian campaign. It was on the eastern border of Alexander's empire. Today, it is near
Amritsar, part of
Punjab, India.[1][2][3][4]
Alexander's army, exhausted, homesick, and anxious at the prospect of having to face yet again large Indian armies throughout the
Indo-Gangetic Plain, mutinied at the Hyphasis river and refused to march further east. Alexander, after a meeting with his officer,
Coenus, and after hearing about the lament of his soldiers, eventually relented, being convinced that it was better to return.[5]