Ramses the Warrior Part I

Ramses's hometown is Piramesse. He was the third king of the 19th dynasty. Before he emerged victorious at the Battle of Kadesh, he built many temples, monument and cities.

Ramses accomlished many things in his life time that he took pride and one of them is his victory in the Battle of Kadesh. He engaged in numerous wars and battles to reconquer the lost territories of Egypt but his most famous battle is the Battle of Kadesh. The Hittites wanting too recover Amuru from the Egytians, the Hittites marched into Egypt, Ramses and his army faced them with the same valor.

Ramses did not see the Hittite as a threat. He saw the Hittite army as weak. Ramses was desperate to win the Battle of Kadesh for it will expand the Egytian empire into Syria. Kadesh was a strategic location. Another reason that fueled Ramses to win this Battle was that his father also invaded Kadesh in his during his reign.

Ramses's the Family Guy

According to this website http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Egypt/save/cramer/cramer.htm, Ramses had about numerous concubines and wives, but his first wife, Queen Nefertari was the one he chose as the "Great Royal Wife" and "Mistress of the Upper and Lower Nile". Ramses married Nefertari before he assumed the Egyptian throne, she bore his first son Amen-Hir-Khopshef(one of his 168 children). Nefertari passed when Ramses was only 48 years old.But it is not as bad as you think. Ramses had a plethora of wives. Some of them were his daughters! In actual fact, his 4th wife was his sister.

Ramses had over a hundred of kids and according to http://homeschooling.about.com/od/favoritehistoricalfigure/p/ramses.htm he had 90 sons after he died. His first thirteen sons he outlived.