Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Memphis (Athenian Expedition to Egypt).

This city was captured B.C. 459 by an Athenian fleet of 200 ships, which sailed up the Nile to the assistance of Inaros, who had raised the standard of revolt against Persia. The citadel, however, held out until B.C. 456, when a Persian army, under Megabyzus,[Megabyzus,] defeated the Athenians and drove them out of Memphis.