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===Campaign of 673 BCE===
[[File:Taharqa,_Louvre_Museum.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Statue of Kushite ruler and pharaoh of the [[25th Dynasty]] [[Taharqa]] (ruled 690-664 BCE), who led the fight against the Assyrians. [[Louvre Museum]] reconstruction.]]
[[Esarhaddon]] then raided Egypt in 673 BCE. This invasion, which only a few Assyrian sources discuss, ended in what some scholars have assumed was possibly one of Assyria's worst defeats.'''{{Sfn|Ephʿal|2005|p=99}}''' Taharqa and his army defeated the Assyrians outright in 674 BC, according to Babylonian records.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rescue of Jerusalem|date=2002|publisher=Soho Press, Inc.|isbn=1-56947-275-0|location=New York, NY|pages=x, 158-161|last1=Aubin|first1=Henry T.}}</ref> The Egyptians had for years sponsored rebels and dissenters in Assyria and Esarhaddon had hoped to storm Egypt and take this rival out in one fell swoop.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Because Esarhaddon had marched his army at great speed, the Assyrians were exhausted once they arrived outside the Egyptian-controlled city of [[Ashkelon]], where they were defeated by the [[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt|Kushite]] [[Pharaoh]] [[Taharqa]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Following this defeat, Esarhaddon abandoned his plan to conquer Egypt for the moment and withdrew back to Nineveh.'''{{Sfn|Mark|2014|p=}}'''
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