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Porus ( ?-317 B.C.) A king of the north of India, conquered by Alexander the Great. Alexander defeated Porus on the bank of the Hydaspes (Jhelam) River in 326 B.C..
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. I (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 658. (Defeat of Porus by the Macedoniansl.)
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