Thutmose Iii: A Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King
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Richard Gabriel, the prolific author of books on ancient military history, has produced another biography of one of the ancient world's greatest military figures-Thutmose III, the Egyptian pharaoh from 1482 to 1450 B. C. Gabriel finds in Thutmose a warrior whose accomplishments equal (and in some respects exceed) those of Alexander the Great a thousand years later. Thutmose's most bold exploit took the Egyptian army, dragging rafts for the eventual river crossing, all the way from the Lebanese coast to Carchemish, a Mitanni city on the banks of the Euphrates near the border of modern Syria and Turkey.
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Thutmose Iii: A Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King
Thutmose III: A Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King. By Richard A. Gabriel. Washington: Potomac Books, 2009. 241 pages. $29.95.
Richard Gabriel, the prolific author of books on ancient military history, has produced another biog...See the full content of this document
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