Hello and welcome to the History of Egypt podcast.

Episode 70, the Napoleon of Egypt, in which King Tutmos III demonstrates why they call him

the Napoleon of Egypt, by leading a stunning and dangerous charge against his most formidable

foes.

This episode is the third or so in our quote-unquote

trilogy of Tartmosa's mighty war campaigns, which were the pre-eminent achievement of his

first decade in sole power. Like the Megito campaign which began this process, the

eighth campaign is well documented in the historical record.

We know the dates, the sequence and the details of events.

We even have the names of some of the participants,

and a fairly good handle on what actually happened over the campaign's duration.

So, without further ado, welcome to Tuttmose' most glorious campaign.

This episode takes place over an unusually specific time frame for this podcast.

That period is approximately six months long, from May to November of the year 1462 BCE.

During this time, Tuttmos III departed Egypt, conducted his war and returned, and many years later,

the events were translated into inscriptions, on temples, on tombs, and on great stilai at various locations. Thanks to this huge number of records which survive, the campaign has been

reconstructed, carefully and painstakinglyly by Egyptologists. Thanks to their efforts,

in particular the eminent professor Donald B. Redford, we are able to pin the dates and events

down to some proper specifics. So what you hear today is, by and large, the narrative as it survives.

It began, as most of Tartmosa's campaigns did, with a sea voyage.

In May of 1462, the Egyptian fleet departed the great harbour city of Peru Nefer in the Nile Delta.

With great fanfare, the mighty vessels pulled away from the docks and anchor points and headed

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