Thutmose Iii Military Campaigns

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Year 12 Ancient History New Kingdom Egypt to the death of Thutmose IV Thutmose III After the death of Thutmosis II, his marriage to Hatshepsut, a descendant from the founder of the New Kingdom through her mother, had only produced one daughter, Nefrure. The throne thus fell to the son of a lesser wife, Isis, who was still a minor; like both his predecessors, he bore the personal name Thutmose. Under his throne, Menkheperre, this third Thutmose would become, for his subjects as well as for his neighbouring peoples, an enduring and fearsome symbol of the grandeur of Egypt. The young king’s stepmother, Hatshepsut, acted as regent on his behalf until he was old enough to rule for himself. Throughout this regency, Hatshepsut unknowingly creates the super pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, as she sends Thutmose to a military base at the age of nine where he would have been taught the key elements of a warrior pharaoh: loyalty, drive and well-known military prowess – qualities that have led Egyptologists as well as historians to compare him to the “Emperor Napoleon” of his time; a reference both to his military abilities and to his physical stature. Thus, after Hatshepsut’s death, Thutmose began his sole rule and loomed ever larger. M ilitary Campaigns: Thutmose III pursued the most active reign in which was characterised by his long list of military campaigns in the New Kingdom. In his first twenty years of his independent reign, he conducted seventeen campaigns into Syria-Palestine, as records of these campaigns were preserved in a range of sources, such as the archaeological sources, including his famous Annals recorded on the temple of Amun at Karnak (listing of his seventeen campaigns) and the Gebel Barkal and Armant stelae (commemorating his crossing of the Euphrates River during his eighth campaign), all providing us with the first real accounts of any military
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