1. During this war, the future king Darius III Codomannus defeated a Cadusian leader in a duel.

2. The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold by soothsayers when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.

3. In the spring of 330, Alexander the Great , pursuing the last Achaemenid king Darius III Codomannus , passed through Gabae.

4. In November 333 BC, the Macedonian troops led by Alexander the Great, outnumbered roughly by four to one, defeated the army led by Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Issus.

5. The Battle of Gaugamela took place in 331 BC between Alexander the Great of Macedonia and Darius III of Achaemenid Persia.