Esar-haddon seized two of the chiefs and carried them off to Assyria, whereupon several others made their submission, consenting to pay a tribute and to divide their authority with Assyrian officers.
It is probable that these various expeditions occupied Esarhaddon from B.C.681, the year of his accession, to B.C.671, when it is likely that they were recorded on the existing cylinder.

The expeditions are ten in number, directed against countries remote from one another; and each may well have occupied an entire year.

There would thus remain only three more years of the king's reign, after the termination of the chief native record, during which his history has to be learnt from other sources.

Into this space falls, almost certainly, the greatest of Esar-haddon's exploits the conquest of Egypt; and, probably, one of the most interesting episodes of his reign--the punishment and pardon of Manasseh.

With the consideration of these two events the military history of his reign will terminate.
The conquest of Egypt by Esar-haddon, though concealed from Herodotus, and not known even to Diodorus, was no secret to the more learned Greeks, who probably found an account of the expedition in the great work of Berosus.