Campaigns of Ahmose I

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Military campaigns of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I.

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January 1523 BC: Pharaoh Ahmose I successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of Nubia and Canaan.
January 1549 BC: Pharaoh Ahmose I reasserted Egyptian power in Canaan.
January 1549 BC: Pharaoh Ahmose I reasserted Egyptian power in Canaan.

Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I's campaigns in to reconquer Nubia.

January 1527 BC: Ahmose I's campaigns in Nubia are better documented. Soon after the first Nubian campaign, a Nubian named Aata rebelled against Ahmose, but was crushed. After this attempt, an anti-Theban Egyptian named Tetian gathered many rebels in Nubia, but he too was defeated. Ahmose restored Egyptian rule over Nubia, which was controlled from a new administrative center established at Buhen.

Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I in Canaan.

January 1526 BC: Ahmose I began a military expedition in Syria and Nubia during his 22nd year of reign. He reached Djahy in the Levant and perhaps as far as the Euphrates. Ahmose did reach at least as far as Kedem (thought to be near Byblos), according to an ostracon in the tomb of his wife, Ahmose-Nefertari.
February 1526 BC: Ahmose I started a military expedition in Syria and Nubia during his 22nd year of reign. At the end of the expedition the Pharaoh left most of the territories.

Military campaign of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose I in Nubia to crash a rebellion.

January 1520 BC: Upon Thutmose's coronation, Nubia rebelled against Egyptian rule. According to the tomb autobiography of Ahmose, son of Ebana, Thutmose traveled up the Nile and fought in the battle, personally killing the Nubian king. Upon victory, he had the Nubian king's body hung from the prow of his ship, before he returned to Thebes.
January 1516 BC: Thutmose had to face one more military threat, another rebellion by Nubia in his fourth year.

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Weinstein, J. M. (1981): The Egyptian Empire in Palestine: A Reassessment, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research nr. 241, p.7