In the last 28 months of the siege, the Ottomans upped the ante, sent a larger army, and and made continuous attacks on the fortifications. 108,000 Turks, 29,000 Venetians and other Christians, and 38,000 Cretans and slaves were killed in the two years before the end of the siege. If I was one of surviving besieged and could only carry what I could hold in my arms, I would probably leave my treasure for the Turks and focus on food for the long voyage ahead. Idi Amin did the same thing to 80,000 Indians and other Asians when he expelled them from Uganda in 1972.

The next battle for the city would be in May 1941 after it had been renamed Herakilon and had a major airfield built. British Commonwealth and Cretan forces held off Nazi German paratroopers and glider troops for only ten days during the Battle of Crete. German rule of the island was absolutely brutal, just like everywhere else.