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1 Curtius 4.15.5-11. The "baggage" included persons as well as objects, and it may be that this attack was a calculated attempt to recover the Persian women captured at Issus. Arrian. 3.14.5-6 views it as a purely military manoeuvre. Arrian reports that it was a break through the Macedonian line carried out by Indians and Persian cavalry, while Curtius and Plut. Alexander 32.2, who do not identify the troops, agree with Diodorus that the operation was a sweep around the Macedonian left wing.
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