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I levelled the city and its houses from the foundations to the top, I destroyed them, and I consumed them with fire. I tore down and removed the outer and inner walls, the temples and ziggurats built of brick, and dumped the rubble in the Arahtu canal. And after I destroyed Babylon, smashed its gods and massacred its population, I tore up its soil and threw it into the Euphrates so that it was carried by the river down to the sea

- Sennacherib of Assyria, 680 BC

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Today in Military History

July 10



1917:

Official statement gives British captures on all fronts since beginning of World War I as 117,772 prisoners and 759 guns


1943:

Allied landing at Pachino




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