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---- This page relates to the year -1600 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Kamosis, after a preliminary forwarding against Couch, takes again the fight against the Hyksos. It is victorious of Apopi in Neferousy, in the north of Hermopolis. Apopi flees until Avaris, its capital. He seeks the alliance of king de Couch to take Kamosis with reverse. He sends a messenger by the road of the oases, but he is intercepted by Thébains. Kamosis against attack, and drives out Hyksos of the Egypt average. It places a royal prince on the Nubie.

a true standing army develops in Egypt, including/understanding beside the traditional conscription of truths soldiers of career, foreign mercenaries, enlisted overcome warriors of force. The infantry is made up of sections of 50 men (archers, piquiers), old tradition, then in army corps from 4000 to 5000 men, of which the number evolved/moved from two to four during the New empire. The Egyptian army also adopts the tank of war (single tiller, wheel with rays, brace out of sheathed leather wood), assembled by a driver and an archer, who becomes the motive fluid of the strategy. The charrery becomes the weapon of the noble young people, raised and trained with the royal palace with the heir to the throne, whose formation couples the military training and the education of the scribe. Each army corps is equipped with a squadron of about fifty tanks. The scribes of the army play a crucial role in the staff management, logistics and the intendance. The important development of the navy (shipyards of Memphis) becomes paramount in the preparation of military forwardings. The king is the chief of the armies, surrounded by a true staff including/understanding, with the vizier, the assisted “general-in-chief” of the chiefs of the army corps.

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