Which famous Jewish fortress was besieged and captured by the Roman 6th Legion in 73 AD?
Jewish–Roman wars Army from breaking the third and thickest wall. Following a brutal seven-month siege, in which Zealot infighting resulted in the burning of the entire food supply of the city to enhance "fighting to the end", the Romans finally succeeded in breaching the weakened Jewish forces in the summer of 70 CE. Following the fall of Jerusalem, Titus left for Rome, while Legion X "Fretensis" defeated the remaining Jewish strongholds later on, finalizing the Roman campaign in Masada in 73/74 CE. The Kitos War (115–117 CE) also known as "mered ha'galuyot" or "mered ha'tfutzot" (Rebellion of the exile) is the name
Fortress Besieged University" (), from which the novel's character obtained his PhD paper, is used as an idiom meaning an illegitimate foreign degree qualification or academic institution. Likewise, the novel's title, deriving from the French proverb, has given rise to a similar proverb in Chinese. Fortress Besieged Fortress Besieged (Simplified Chinese: 围城; Traditional Chinese: 圍城; Pinyin: wéi chéng) is a Chinese satiric novel written by Qian Zhongshu, first published in 1947, and widely considered one of the masterpieces of twentieth century Chinese literature. The novel is a humorous tale about middle-class Chinese society in the late 1930s. It was made into a