Battle of Halule

Sennacherib of Assyria faced a massive coalition of Babylonians, Elamites, Chaldeans, and Aramaean tribes at Halule on the Tigris River. It was one of the largest battles in Mesopotamian history. Sennacherib's inscriptions claim a great victory with rivers of enemy blood, but the fact that Babylon remained independent after the battle suggests the outcome was less decisive than claimed. The inconclusive result frustrated Sennacherib so deeply that two years later he would take the drastic step of completely destroying Babylon.