As my brain goes offline :| :(
Alexander smiled slightly. "You know, I thought if my name or strategies lived on a few hundred years after my death, I'd be doing alright. A millennium and then some, it was more than I'd ever dreamed. You hope, of course, but nothing's certain."
He sipped his coffee. "I heard about your coronation, Europe was abuzz with it," he went on. "And when you defeated the Spanish Armada."