A legend says this city was saved from attack when a priest-king sent a pack of field mice to gnaw on the bowstrings and shield-straps of Sennacherib's army.
Prior to a battle named for this city, the losing commander arrested all the sons of his former advisor, drained their blood into two bowls, and mixed it with wine as a pre-battle drink. A legend says this city was saved from attack when a priest-king sent a pack of field mice to gnaw on the bowstrings and shield-straps of Sennacherib's army. Nectanebo II was defeated here in 343 BC by the Theban general Lacrates in a victory for Artaxerxes III. At an earlier battle here, Polycrates of Samos sent forty triremes to aid the victors, who benefited from the navigation of the traitor Phanes of Helicarnassus. According to Polyaenus, the invaders pinned cats to their shields because opposing archers would not attack them at another battle here in which Psamtik III was defeated by Cambyses II, giving the throne to the Persians. For 10 points, name this ancient city on the eastern Nile delta, called the "stronghold of Egypt."
Prior to a battle named for this city, the losing commander arrested all the sons of his former advisor, drained their blood into two bowls, and mixed it with wine as a pre-battle drink.
Pelusium [or Pelousion, or Sa’inu or Per-Amon]