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i'm kinda confused on this

2007-09-15 18:40:57 · 3 answers · asked by todi 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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If you are referring to the battle of Kadesh between the Egyptian forces of Rameses II and the Hittites, most historians considered the result to be inconclusive. Neither side was able to gain a total victory despite 2 days of fighting. The Egyptians had suffered heavy casualties and Kadesh's defenses remained unbroken. The Hittite army, remained intact and posed a formidable challenge to the Egyptians.

On his return to Egypt, Rameses proclaimed that he had won a great victory when all he had managed to do was to rescue his army. Personally Rameses II had blundered into a devastating Hittite ambush, but had courageously rallied his scattered troops to fight on the battlefield.

Hittite records tell a very different conclusion to the battle where a humiliated Rameses was forced to depart from Kadesh in defeat. After the battle, the Hittite king, Muwatalli II, continued to successfully campaign as far south as the Egyptian province of Upi (Apa).

2007-09-15 19:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by KK Oz 3 · 0 0

Rameses II claimed it as a victory but it is more likely to have been inconclusive as the Egyptians did not gain any territory and he did not go to war with the Hittites again

2007-09-16 01:49:08 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0 0

I think the Egyptians

2007-09-16 01:44:41 · answer #3 · answered by Lyle G 3 · 0 0

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