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Military campaigns of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II.
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January 1482 BC: Upon Thutmose's coronation, Kush rebelled.
January 1479 BC: Thutmose seems to have fought against the Shasu Bedouin in the Sinai, in a campaign mentioned by Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet.
Upon Thutmose's coronation, Kush rebelled. The revolt was crushed by the Pharaoh's army.
January 1479 BC: Upon Thutmose's coronation, Kush rebelled.
Were the military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
2.1.First Syria Campaign
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
January 1456 BC: The Battle of Megiddo 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. Egyptian dominance in the Levant was re-established
2.2.Fifth Syria Campaign
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria that resulted in the conquest of the city and territory around Ardata.
January 1450 BC: In Thutmose's 29th year, he began his fifth campaign and took the city and territory around Ardata.
2.3.Sixth Syria Campaign
Was a military campaign of Pharaoh Thutmose III to crash a rebellion in Syria.
January 1449 BC: Thutmose's sixth campaign, in his thirtieth year pillaging Kadesh's lands. Turning west again, Thutmose took Simyra and quelled a rebellion in Ardata, which apparently had rebelled again.
2.4.Seventh Syria Campaign
Syria rebelled again in Thutmose's 31st year and he returned to Syria for a seventh campaign.
January 1448 BC: Syria rebelled again in Thutmose's 31st year and he returned to Syria for his seventh campaign, took the port city of Ullaza and the smaller Phoenician ports.
2.5.Attack on Mitanni (Eighth Syria Campaign)
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III against the Kingdom of Mitanni.
January 1446 BC: After Pharaoh Thutmose III had taken control of the Syrian cities, the obvious target for his eighth campaign was the state of Mitanni. Thutmose III then went freely from city to city and pillaged them while the nobles hid in caves.
February 1446 BC: After Pharaoh Thutmose III had taken control of the Syrian cities, the obvious target for his eighth campaign was the state of Mitanni. Thutmose III then went freely from city to city and pillaged them while the nobles hid in caves.
2.6.Ninth Syria Campaign
Thutmose III returned to Syria for his ninth campaign in his 34th year, but this appears to have been just a raid of the area called Nukhashshe.
January 1445 BC: Thutmose III returned to Syria for his ninth campaign in his 34th year, but this appears to have been just a raid of the area called Nukhashshe.
2.7.Tenth Syria Campaign
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
January 1444 BC: Records from his 10th campaign indicate much more fighting.
2.8.Thirteenth Syria Campaign
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
January 1441 BC: In his 13th campaign, Thutmose returned to Nukhashshe for a very minor campaign.
2.9.Fourteenth Syria Campaign
Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III in Syria.
January 1440 BC: His 14th campaign, waged during his 39th year, was against the Shasu. The location of this campaign is impossible to determine since the Shasu were nomads who could have lived anywhere from Lebanon to the Transjordan to Edom.
2.10.Seventeenth Syria Campaign
Was a military campaign of Pharaoh Thutmose III to crash a rebellion in Syria.
January 1437 BC: Sometime before Thutmose's 42nd year, Mitanni apparently began spreading revolt among all the major cities in Syria. Thutmose moved his troops by land up the coastal road and put down rebellions in the Arka plain and moved on Tunip. After taking Tunip, his attention turned to Kadesh again. He then engaged and destroyed three surrounding Mitannian garrisons and returned to Egypt in victory.
Selected Sources
Cline, Eric H. (May 2002). The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age. University of Michigan Press. Pp. 16-22
Redford, Donald B. (2003). The Wars in Syria and Palestine of Thutmose III. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 16. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-12989-4. p. 226.
Campaigns of Thutmose II
