Jackson thereupon swiftly rejoined Lee, leaving only a division to carry out the capitulation.
The battle preceding a capitulation lasted from July until December.
For twelve months the population held out, repulsing the attacks of the enemy, refusing every offer of honourable capitulation.
Amr recrossed the river and joined it, but presently was confronted by a Roman army, which he defeated at the battle of Heliopolis (July 640); this victory was followed by the siege of Babylon, which after some futile attempts at negotiation was taken partly by storm and partly by capitulation.
When the cause of King James was ruined in Ireland, Sarsfield arranged the capitulation of Limerick and sailed to France on the 22nd of December 1691 with many of his countrymen who entered the French service.