Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile

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Careful attention was paid to his physical development too. Pharaohs were expected to excel in the military skills of chariotry and archery. Ramses was still only in his midteens when his father, with the thoughts of past disputed successions very much in mind, decided to install him as prince regement. Shortly after his father’s Seti’s I accession the boy had been given the official title of “Eldest King’s Son” and accorded the nominal rank of commander in chief of the army.
Concerns for the future of the dynasty no doubt lay behind Seti’s decision to provide the teenage prince with his own royal menage. However, the prince felt that he had a foundation to build for himself. Shortly after the nomination he married. Both of his principal wives bore him at least five sons and several daughters. Other children were also known to have been born to certain of the royal concubines.
As prince regent, Ramses was gradually introduced to the responsibilities of the nation’s highest ...

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his father’s successful rule, Ramses could look across the Mediterranean Sea to the Hittite Empire were there were old scores to be settled. The young Pharaoh finally felt ready to embark on a invasion of Syria- a move guaranteed to provoke war with the Hittites.
Four years after he came to the throne the young Pharaoh, greedy for renown, led a strong force into Palestine the summer of 1286 B.C. with a reliable and disciplined army of perhaps 20,000 men. Muwatallish, a well renown pharaoh of his time, had bludgeoned into existence a coalition of more than twenty states and Ramses marched forward confidently to meet them, his army disposed in four corps. The king himself headed the ...

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