Ramses

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throne. She was his first and greatest love.
appointed Nefertari, after his father's death, as the "Great Royal Wife" and the "Mistress of Upper and Lower Nile". She had born his first son. went as far as to construct an enormous statue of his beloved wife next to his statue in Abu Simbel. Unfortunately, Nefertari died when was only 48 years old. He then married one of their daughters, Meryt-Amun and then continued to marry other wives including a Babylonian princess, a Syrian princess, a Hittite princess, one of his sisters, and several daughters.
When Ramses II first became pharaoh he crusaded along the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea taking back all of Egypt's land. As his father did, he fought with the Hittite too. When he went into war with the Hittite, in 1275 B.C., he had an army of about twenty- thousand men camped in Kadesh, Syria, planning a surprise attack. When he was waiting for his men to get ready he found himself with few men, and surrounded by Hittite ...

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