The warrior king Thutmose III and the first regular army in the world
The greatest warrior pharaoh and the greatest Egyptian king ever, King Thutmose III, the pharaoh of glory and victory and the master of a strategic warrior and military kings, and the complement of the Egyptian empire in the ancient world taking from his grandfather the founding king Thutmose I as a role model and a higher example for him
His father was King Thutmose the Second, who died and left the male pharaoh and Crown Prince Thutmose alone under the will of his aunt and stepmother, the famous Queen Hatshepsut, who was tempted by the magic of power and seduced by the pleasure of rule, so she usurped the rule from the young king and expelled him to the vastness of the shadows
Thutmose III remained in the shadows for a long time until Queen Hatshepsut was absent or excluded from the political scene in the country, and the lion came out of his den to show us the legendary figure of King Thutmose III, recording Egypt's military glory written in letters of light and pride in all the world's military colleges and academies
Thutmose III married his half-sister, Princess Neferura, daughter of Hatshepsut and his father Thutmose II, and she died before the eleventh year of his reign. Thutmose III is in the shadows. He invested his time in learning the martial arts and the principles of war, which made him a feat of a military leader, rarely recurring or making time like him on the battlefield.
Some of the princes of the kingdoms of the Levant took advantage of the period of Hatshepsut’s rule and separated from the Egyptian Empire. The brave King Thutmose III started his military campaigns in the ancient Near East. We know about this king’s war campaigns through his annals recorded by one of his commanders on the walls of Karnak. He won in every country he fought in.
The military campaign was a wonderful plan, strong in precision and implementation, so we saw him crawling towards Gaza in ten days, occupying the city and making his way to Megiddo, which rebelled against his rule under the leadership of the Emir of Kadesh.
And there was a problem in choosing the appropriate path that the forces should take to Megiddo, and there were two usual roads, except that Thutmose III chose the unexpected, narrow, and most dangerous and rugged path until the enemy was surprised and eliminated, and the great victory was the ally of the warrior Pharaoh Thutmose III after he besieged the city for seven months.
And he was at the head of his army, a warrior in Syria every summer for 18 years, and he used the Egyptian navy to transport Egyptian forces to the Mediterranean coast, and he occupied Kadesh in the 42nd year of his rule, and more than 350 cities pledged allegiance to the rule of Egypt in the Levant, and he made about 17 military campaigns in West Asia, and campaigns in the country of Nubia and set up several temples and contributed to the Egyptianization significantly
Thutmose III, a pharaoh, Pharaonic Egypt did not give birth like him at all, and everything he did was for the sake of his great country Egypt and the great Egyptian sons of his country, which made her the lady of the ancient world and his name remained in the record of the greatest military leaders in history
