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People: Dmitri Mendeleev
Topic: Caesarea, Siege of
Location: Erythrae Turkey

Caesarea, Siege of

Years: 260 - 260

The Siege of Caesarea takes place when the Sassanids under Shapur I besiege the Roman city of Antioch in 260 after winning over the Romans in the Battle of Edessa.

Caesarea during this time has a large population (about 400,000 inhabitants).

The Sassanids cannot take the city so they take a Roman as captive and torture him until he reveals a special way from which the Sassanids could take.

The Sassanids raid Caesarea during the night and kill every Roman soldier; however, the Roman general Demosthenes manages to escape during the raid.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)