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However, in 66, Vespasian was appointed to suppress the Jewish revolt underway in Judaea.
The fighting there had killed the previous governor and routed Cestius Gallus, the governor of Syria, when he tried to restore order.
Two legions, with eight cavalry squadrons and ten auxiliary cohorts, were therefore dispatched under the command of Vespasian while his elder son, Titus, arrived from Alexandria with another.
During this time he became the patron of Flavius Josephus, a Jewish resistance leader captured at the Siege of Yodfat, who would later write his people's history in Greek.
Ultimately, thousands of Jews were killed and the Romans destroyed many towns in re-establishing control over Judea ; they also took Jerusalem in 70.
Vespasian is remembered by Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, as a fair and humane official, in contrast with the notorious Herod the Great whom Josephus goes to great lengths to demonize.

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