A prosperous voyage from Carthage soon brought the younger Heraclius in front of Constantinople.

The inconstant clergy, senate, and people of the city joined him, the usurper was seized in his palace and beheaded.
INVASION OF CHOSROES.

But the revolution that had taken place in Constantinople did not arrest the movements of the Persian king.

His Magian priests had warned him to act independently of the Greeks, whose superstition, they declared, was devoid of all truth and justice.
Chosroes, therefore, crossed the Euphrates; his army was received with transport by the Syrian sectaries, insurrections in his favor everywhere breaking out.

In succession, Antioch, Caesarea, Damascus fell; Jerusalem itself was taken by storm; the sepulchre of Christ, the churches of Constantine and of Helena were given to the flames; the Savior's cross was sent as a trophy to Persia; the churches were rifled of their riches; the sacred relics, collected by superstition, were dispersed.
Egypt was invaded, conquered, and annexed to the Persian Empire; the Patriarch of Alexandria escaped by flight to Cyprus; the African coast to Tripoli was seized.