Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Pelusium (War of Alexander's Successors).

Fought B.C. 321, between the Macedonians, under the Regent, Perdiccas, and the Egyptians, under Ptolemy Lagus. Perdiccas attacked the fortress, but was driven off with heavy loss, including 1,000 drowned in the Nile.