Tristan Hughes

There's just one.

And why are they there?

other than the fact that Alexander quite fancies the idea of conquering as far as he can keep conquering.

And in a sense, you know, you even have to wonder sometimes, does he keep doing this, A, because he just loves it, or does he not want to settle down and do the boring stuff of running this empire he's just conquered?

But the men finally get to the point where they are just fed up.

They will not keep going.

Because these are people who've been at this now for...

So many years come so far.

And most of them had fought under Philip as well before that.

And there's only so much you could take out of someone.

They must be exhausted.

And it's your boldest men have suffered wound after wound or they've watched others die because they've kept on leading the way.

Yes, you've had promotion.

Yes, you've had loads of plunder.

You've got lots of glory.

But what's the point of it if you can't spend it?

And if you can't go back to have people admire you?

So it's the point where Alexander's

inability to read his men sometimes just comes to a head because he thinks he can bluster, first of all, and make them go on and do the, oh yeah, you'll back down and it's across the Hyphasis River that you will just go across this one and then we'll keep going.

But they simply refuse.