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- After serving in the First World War (with wounds which meant that he could not go on active service in World War 2) he left his first wife Gladys and son Dennis to go to India as a Professor of English Literature, and it was there that he began to write spy novels.
According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into the country, but most of the world still believes that Alexander won the battle. Many of Internet links claim that Porus was defeated by Alexander, then he returned to Greece, giving back the Kingdom to Porus.
- In regards to the battle between Alexander and Porus, both accounts are correct, in their own way. Alexander won the battle, and received an acknow...
- The bulk of India then was not controlled by Porus, but by the Nanda dynasty, centered at Pataliputra. Porus controlled only a small section of Ind...
- When Alexander built his great empire, what he was essentially doing is taking over the Achaemenid Empire piece by piece, at a point when the empir...
- I would like put few points from my reading: Who won the battle ? Well as pointed out by others, it is not quite sure who won the battle i.e. "The...
- Alexander won ONE battle. That does not necessarily mean that he will win the second or third. By being able to appoint Porus "Satrap," Alexander g...
- I like to point out two reasons behind Alexander's return without conquering India which is not identified in this answer till now. From Madison to...
- This is a grey area of history. While the Porus-Alexander story is legendary, there is no guarantee that it actually took place. Neither is there a...
- It is only a theory that Alexander moved back encountering elephants (for first time ?). Having won the most of walk-able world Alexander would hav...
- actually the greek force was fearful of the great Nand king that was ruling the vast empire of Magadh from its capital patliputra(modern patna and...
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Leaving behind Gladys and his children, Adrian Wilson (b. 1917), Dennis B. Wilson (b. 1921), and Daphne Wilson (b. 1922), Wilson left for British India in October 1925. En route to British India, Wilson met actress Dorothy Phyllis Wick (1893 – 1965) on the SS City of Nagpur, bound from Liverpool to Karachi.
Born in Dover, Kent, to an Irish mother and an English army officer father, Alexander Wilson spent his childhood following his father to Mauritius, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ceylon.
- Terry Kirby
Jan 1, 2019 · After serving in the First World War (with wounds which meant that he could not go on active service in World War 2) he left his first wife Gladys and son Dennis to go to India as a Professor of English Literature, and it was there that he began to write spy novels.
MASTERPIECE: Why do you think Alison and Dorothy chose to conceal the truth (what they knew of it) from their children for so long? CROOK: It was the love for their children. They wished to ...
- Masterpiece
Despite the endless questions about who Alexander Wilson truly was, and why he lived the secretive, separate lives that he did, through his personal letters to his son Adrian and wife Alison, it...
Dec 12, 2018 · It tells how she met the charismatic older man, a best-selling spy author, while working for MI6 in London in 1940, where he translated and she transcribed bugged telephone calls from London...
