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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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use whoaccompanied me, and who are my witnesses for the combat; these are thosewhom I was with. I have returned after a victorious struggle, and I havesmitten with my sword the assembled multitudes. ^ The ordeal was a terrible oue for the Khati; but when the first momentof defeat was over, they again took courage and resumed the campaign. Thissingle effort had not exhausted their resources, and they rapidly filled up thegaps which had been made in their ranks. The plains of Xaharaim and themountains of Cilicia supplied them with fresh chariots and foot-soldiers inthe place of those they iuid lost, and bands of mercenaries were furnished fromthe table-lands of Asia Minor, so that when Eamses II. reappeared in Syria,he found himself confronted by a completely fresh army. Khatusaru, havingprofited by experience, did not again attempt a general engagement, but Sallier Papyrus III., pi. viii. 1. 6, et scq.; E. de Kouge, Le Poeme de Pentaour, iu the Eevueigyptoloyiqut, vol. vii. pp. 27, 2S.
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^ -S ■^ o a a 31 400 TEE SEACTION AGAINST EGYPT. contented himself with disputing step by step the upper valleys of theLitany and Orontes. Meantime his emissaries spread themselves over PhcB-nicia and Kbaru, sowing the seeds of rebellion, often only too successfully. Inthe kings VIII year there was a general rising in (xalilee, and its towns—Galaput in the hill-country of Bit-Aniti, Merom, Shalama, Dapur, andAnaiiiaim ^—had to be reduced one after another. Dapur was the hardest tocarry. It crowned the top of a rocky eminence, and was protected by a doublewall, which followed the irregularities of the hillside. It formed a rallyiug-point for a large force, which had to be overcome in the open country before theinvestment of the town could be attempted. The siege was at last brouglit toa conclusion, after a series of skirmishes, and the town taken by scaling, fourEgyptian princes having been employed in conducting the attack. In thePharaohs IX year a revolt broke out on the Egypti

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