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  2. List of wars involving Egypt - Wikipedia

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    losses. Unification Wars of Upper Egypt (c. 3600–3200 BC) Thinis. Naqada. Thinis victory. Scorpion I unified Upper Egypt. The Upper Crown of Egypt would then become the symbol of a united Upper Egypt under one ruler. Scorpion I. Unknown,but in the thousands.

  3. Military of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Military of ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian War Wheels. Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the northern reaches of the Nile River in Egypt. The civilization coalesced around 3150 BC [1] with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the ...

  4. Battle of Pelusium - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Pelusium was the first major battle between the Achaemenid Empire and Egypt. This decisive battle transferred the throne of the Pharaohs to Cambyses II of Persia, marking the beginning of the Achaemenid Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt. It was fought in 525 BC near Pelusium, an important city in the eastern extremes of Egypt 's ...

  5. Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) - Wikipedia

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    Location within Israel. The Battle of Megiddo (fought 15th century BC) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh. [ 4 ] It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. [ 5 ]

  6. Battle of Kadesh - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Kadesh took place in the 13th century BC between the Egyptian Empire led by pharaoh Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire led by king Muwatalli II.Their armies engaged each other at the Orontes River, just upstream of Lake Homs and near the archaeological site of Kadesh, along what is today the Lebanon–Syria border.

  7. Assyrian conquest of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian ruler Psamtik I during the fall of Ashdod in 635 BCE, illustration by Patrick Gray, 1900. The new Egyptian Dynasty, having been installed by the Assyrians, remained on friendly terms with them. But the Neo-Assyrian empire began to disintegrate rapidly after a series of bitter civil wars broke out involving a number of claimants to the ...

  8. Battle of Carchemish - Wikipedia

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    Minimal. The Battle of Carchemish was fought around 605 BC [3][4][5] between the armies of Egypt allied with the remnants of the army of the former Assyrian Empire against the armies of Babylonia, allied with the Medes, and Scythians. This was while Nebuchadnezzar II was commander-in-chief and Nabopolassar was still king of Babylon.

  9. Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated within the contemporary territory of modern-day Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political ...