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This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Egypt and its predecessor states.
ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2ResultsSeventh Crusade (1248–1254)Ayyubid Sultanate Mamluk SultanateKingdom of France Knights TemplarVictory Fall of the Ayyubid Dynasty in ...Mongol invasions of the Levant ...Mamluk Sultanate Ayyubid Sultanate Golden ...Ilkhanate Armenian Cicilia Kingdom of ...Victory Treaty of AleppoNinth Crusade (1271–1272)Kingdom of England Kingdom of France ...Victory Ten-year truce between warring ...Kingdom of Cyprus Knights Hospitaller ...Defeat Alexandria sacked.This category includes historical wars in which Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic Egypt, or Roman Egypt ( 3500 BC – 639) participated.
- The Development of Professional Warfare
- Armies & Weapons in The Old Kingdom
- Middle Kingdom Warfare
- The Contributions of The Hyksos
- The Army of The Empire
- The Egyptian Navy
- Decline of The Egyptian Military
Although modern-day scholars disagree on whether Narmer united Egypt through conquest, there is no doubt that a military force under a strong leader was necessary to hold the country together. Throughout the Early DynasticPeriod in Egypt, there is evidence of unrest, perhaps even a division of the country at one point, and civil wars between factio...
The weapons of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods were primarily maces, daggers, and spears. By the time of the Old Kingdom the bow and arrow, among other weaponry, had been added as historian Margaret Bunson explains: The Egyptians used a simple single-arched bow which was hard to draw, had a short range, and unreliable accuracy. The soldi...
By the time of the Middle Kingdom the troops carried copper axes and swords. The long, bronzespear became standard as did body armor of leather over short kilts. The army was better organized with "a minister of war and a commander in chief of the army, or an official who worked in that capacity" (Bunson, 169). These professional troops were highly...
The kings of the 12th Dynasty, like Senusret III, were strong rulers who contributed a great deal to Egyptian stability but the 13th Dynasty was weaker and failed to maintain an effective central government. The Hyksos, a Semitic people who immigrated from Syria-Palestine, settled in Lower Egypt at Avaris and, in time, had amassed enough wealth to ...
The period of the New Kingdom is the best known by modern-day audiences with some of the most famous rulers (Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Seti I, Ramesses II). It was the period when Egypt reached its height in prestige, power, and wealth. Van de Mieroop writes: The empire of the New Kingdom starts with Ahmose I's pursuit of the Hyksos out of Egypt, t...
Besides the army and the chariotry, there was a third branch of the military, the navy. As noted, in the Old Kingdom the navy was used primarily to transport infantry. Even as late as the Second Intermediate Period, Kamose was using the navy simply as transport to bring his troops down the Nilefor the sack of Avaris. In the New Kingdom, however, th...
Ramesses III was the last effective pharaoh of the New Kingdom and, after he died, great military successes became more and more a thing of the past. The pharaohs who followed him were not strong enough to hold the empire and it began to fall apart. A contributing factor to this decline was actually Ramesses II's decision to build Per-Ramesses and ...
- Joshua J. Mark
The Famous Ancient Egyptian wars and battles. Ancient Egyptian wars: During the first moments of the history of Egypt, the old Kingdom, and the Middle Kingdom, that is, the time of the pyramids, the pharaohs did not have professional soldiers.
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Explore the timline of Egyptian Warfare. The Narmer Palette, an ancient Egyptian ceremonial engraving, depicts the great king Narmer (c. 3150 BCE) conquering his enemies with the support and approval of his gods.
- Joshua J. Mark
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This category includes historical wars in which British-controlled or the independent Arab Republic of Egypt (1882–present) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information.
This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Egypt and its predecessor states. Contents. Early Dynastic Period (c. 3100-2686 BC) Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2181 BC) Middle Kingdom Period (c. 2055-1650 BC) Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1550 BC) New Kingdom Period (c. 1550-1077 BC) Late Period (c. 664-332 BC) Ptolemaic Kingdom (310-30 BC)
