Alexander was pretty good at lightning marches. One time early in his kingship Thebes had gotten word that he had died fighting in the north and decided to rebel only to see Alexander and his army outside its walls an impossibly short amount of time later. Thebes was of course entirely unprepared and had to surrender, at which point Alexander destroyed basically the entire city. After that the rest of the Greeks more or less Stayed Put.

- Count Dolby von Luckner