Destruction of Sennacherib

• "The Assyrians came down like the wolf on the fold/ and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold"
• "Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green [...] like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown [...] lay wither'd and strown"
• "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast/ and breathed in the face of the foe"
• "With dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; /and the tents were all silent, the banners alone, /the lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown"
• "And the windows of Ashur are loud in their wail [....] and the might of the Gentile [...] hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord"
• • Lord Bryon was a romantic poet
  • Sennacherib was King of Assyria 
  • Assyrians were a civilisation in the Middle East
  • This is described in the Bible where, Sennacherib besieges Jerusalem in Assyrian War
  • It's based on biblical story (Kings 2:18-19) --> where the Angel of Lord went out & smote camp of Assyrians + 185 000 Pagan army died