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Thutmose III's Tactical Triumph at Megiddo

#ThutmoseIII #BattleOfMegiddo #AncientEgypt #MilitaryTactics #ChariotWarriors Thutmose III built castles and forts, trained his soldiers in the best training and provided them with powerful innovative weapons such as modern arrows and expanded the use of chariots in combat. In the Battle of Megiddo campaign, he divided his army into a center and two wings and used military tactics and maneuvers that were not known before. Then he set out at the head of his army from Qantara and covered a distance of 150 miles in ten days, after which he reached Gaza, then covered another eighty miles in eleven days between Gaza and one of the cities at the foot of Mount Carmel. There, Thutmose III held a war council with his officers after learning that the Emir of Kadesh had come to the city of Megiddo and gathered around him 230 emirs with their armies and camped in fortified Megiddo to stop the advance of Thutmose III and his army. There were three ways to reach Megiddo, two of which went around the foot of Mount Carmel and the third was a narrow passage, but it led directly to Megiddo. Thutmose decided that the army would pass through the third passage in an adventure that later turned the tide of the battle. The forces of the Prince of Kadesh and his allies had positioned themselves at the end of two wide roads, believing that the Egyptian army would come from one or both of them. At dawn the next day, King Thutmose III ordered the army to reassemble its chariots and prepare for a surprise attack. His forces, led by the Prince of Kadesh, attacked Megiddo in a semicircle. The surprise was that the Egyptians initiated this sweeping attack, which caused them to become confused and lose their balance until their armies fell into a state of chaos and disorder. The army commanders and companies began to flee, leaving behind their large chariots and their camp full of spoils, to enter the fortified city. Because the Egyptian army was busy collecting spoils, the Asians were able to escape to the city and fortified themselves there. The consequence of the army’s distraction in collecting spoils at a time when they could have eliminated the armies of the Prince of Kadesh and achieved complete victory was that Thutmose III was forced to besiege Megiddo for seven long months. The princes surrendered and sent their sons carrying weapons to deliver them to King Thutmose III.