May 10, 70 AD: The Romans Commence Their Assault on the Walls of Jerusalem

The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem, 

by David Roberts (1850)

After two months of siege carried out by four Roman legions with auxiliary forces, on May 10, 70 AD the Romans opened a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacked the city's Third Wall to the northwest.

Upon breaching the Third and the Second Walls, the Romans were drawn into street fighting with the Jewish Zealots, who retreated to the Temple Mount and to the Fortress of Antonia, just north of the Temple Mount, where they barricaded themselves.

It took the Romans which were under the command of Titus the son of Emperor Vespasian four more months, before capturing and destroying the Jewish Temple and taking the entire city under control.