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Although born and raised in Wales I now live 40km due south of my birthplace in Somerset which also features a dragon on its flag (Often called a wyvern here but the distinction is pedantry*). The flag was chosen only this century by a vote run by the Somerset Gazette. It does however closely resemble the device used by the council for over a century except that the council Wyvern holds a mace which had been used as a proxy by some for many years.  The continuing appeal of dragons is clearly not a niche one as the vote certainly drew interest and three of the top four designs in the poll featured a dragon/wyvern.
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As the pose more easily fits onto a shield I used this design as the basis of the shield on the front of my knightly orders.

* I am sure I was told many years ago that a dragon had four legs and a wyvern two but this does not seem to work with representations seen – perhaps another of those logical points that doesn't actually stack up  - like the number of equine hooves on the floor of mounted heroes being an indication of whether or not they died in battle.

Yes, love the artwork

I like the bit about Alex having an instinctive grasp of what his army was capable of and being able to make the correct rational decisions in mid-battle.

...that elephant looks genuinely worried by meeting a more scary beast than him/herself !! 🫣
Lovely bit of medieval art...👍🏼

I merely comment that we are still discussing Alexander over two thousand years after he died. I doubt anybody will remember many of his detractors in another two decades 

https://acoup.blog/2024/05/17/collections-on-the-reign-of-alexander-iii-of-macedon-the-great/

Oooooo, light the blue touch paper and run?

Absolutemonte

So the Border Wars using HOTT is the way to go?

https://www.thecollector.com/dragons-medieval-england/

Love a dragon, me

https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/a-plague-comes-before-the-fall-lessons-from-roman-history/

Been reading around the various incidences. Not just the normal, well known ones