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In Ramesses II fifth year as pharaoh, the cunning and treacherous king of Amurru changed his loyalty from the Hittite to the Egyptian empire. Ramesses, astutely recognizing an opportunity to use his new vassal as a wedge to prise apart the many vassals and allied city-states of the Hittite empire's southern fringe and thus reassert Egyptian influence in the byzantine morass of north syrian politics, having laid fallow since Thutmoses's time a century before.
In response, Muwatalli, the Great King of Hatti led southwards from Carchemish the largest Hittite army every assembled for a single battle, drawn from all parts of the vast Hittite empire.
These empires eventually tested the strengths the greatest chariot battle in human history. Kadesh
Hittites spies, posing as shosu bedu misinform the pharaoh as to the true location of the Hittite army.
Hittite chariots route Ra and Amen divisions.
Canaanite auxiliaries enroute to Kadesh.
In Ramesses II fifth year as pharaoh, the cunning and treacherous king of Amurru changed his loyalty from the Hittite to the Egyptian empire. Ramesses, astutely recognizing an opportunity to use his new vassal as a wedge to prise apart the many vassals and allied city-states of the Hittite empire's southern fringe and thus reassert Egyptian influence in the byzantine morass of north syrian politics, having laid fallow since Thutmoses's time a century before.
In response, Muwatalli, the Great King of Hatti led southwards from Carchemish the largest Hittite army every assembled for a single battle, drawn from all parts of the vast Hittite empire.
These empires eventually tested the strengths the greatest chariot battle in human history. Kadesh
Hittites spies, posing as shosu bedu misinform the pharaoh as to the true location of the Hittite army.
Hittite chariots route Ra and Amen divisions.
Canaanite auxiliaries enroute to Kadesh.
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