Did you look into possibly the greatest speech ever made by a man? Hang on a sec...

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlKJDwViNKs

He was 31 years old when he made this speech. Summary: as his campaign into the middle east continued, he tried to send a handful of Macedonian troops back home- most of them were officers who had grown old or been maimed somehow, or become very ill. It was a calculated decision to send them home. A lot of the officers perceived this as a slight to their honor, and then they organized a mutiny.

Men loyal to Alexander discovered it and informed him quickly- he was able to have 13 of the loudest dissenters who were leading the mutiny rounded up, and executed. Then, he delivered this speech, largely considered to be the greatest speech in history. We have no way of knowing exactly what was said, but the men who heard it and recorded it all reported something similar, and in that video, a close approximation of what was said is probably delivered.

He told the Macedonians that they could leave, he didn't care. He reminded them of everything that his father had done for Macedonia, then reminded them of everything he had done for them. He reminded them that he had fought alongside them, being wounded just like them, that he stood watch at night while his men slept, that he didn't get to eat or rest much more than they did. He reminded them of their conquests, of everything that they'd achieved under his command, of all the benefits and riches they now had because of him. He reminded them that they are well paid, allowed to plunder, pay no taxes, their families honored back home.

After reminding them of these things, he simply said "So, if you want to go, then leave! Maybe the Gods will view your actions as worthy, maybe the people back home will view you as glorious when they find out you left your king under the protection of the foreigners you conquered with him."

I imagine after he was done speaking, the soldiers threw themselves at his feet, crying and begging for forgiveness. It is said that it was quite emotional as basically all of the men begged for forgiveness, swore their allegiance anew, and then Alexander forgave them. He was unbelievably intelligent, in many facets- outside of warfare, he was very socially adept. He knew what motivated men, he knew how to motivate them. Many kings/generals of the time would've simply had every last man who expressed doubt executed... and then been left with a devastated army, many of the surviving men now bitter as piss because their buddies were just executed for having natural doubts while so far away from home in a foreign land.

Alexander was smarter than this. He killed those 13 guys because they were traitors and couldn't be redeemed, but he realized he could probably spare the army with a little manipulation. He essentially laid a massive guilt trip on them, and then gave them his express permission to leave and do whatever they wanted. Suddenly, nobody wanted to leave anymore, all they wanted to do was serve him. He went from the verge of being murdered by his own men in a mutiny, to having the most fanatically loyal army with just 13 executed mutineers and a short speech. Fucking astounding.

Then, he died a year later from a "mysterious illness". I think it's pretty obvious that he was poisoned, he had a lot of enemies... and he liked to drink, excessively. Slipping him poison wouldn't have been hard. Weren't his final words something like "The pain! My stomach is riddled with holes!"? Sounds like a poisoning to me.

He was murdered by a sneaky kike. Some regionally poisonous plant is theorized to be what was used.