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The Siege of Megiddo (1457 BC) was a protracted blockade of the Canaanite city of Megiddo by Egyptian forces under the command of the warrior pharaoh Thutmose III. The siege of the city came immediately after the Battle of Megiddo (dated by the favoured Middle Chronology to 1457 BC) in which the forces of a large Canaanite coalition were surprised and routed by the Egyptian forces. Fleeing destruction at the hands of the Egyptians, who reportedly busied themselves with looting the battlefield (much to Thutmose's chagrin), the surviving Canaanite troops were able to enter the city and close it against Egyptian incursion. A siege thereafter followed - its duration the basis of some argument, but with upper figures at 7 months - before the capitulation and surrender of the city to the Pharaoh.
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