The siege progressed slowly, and the Egyptian sultan al-Adil died in August 1218, supposedly of shock after the crusaders managed to capture one of Damietta's towers.

Maimonides shortly thereafter became instrumental in helping rescue Jews taken captive during the Christian King Amalric's siege of the Egyptian town of Bilbays.

The Egyptian siege of Dapur in the 13th century BC, from Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt | Thebes

The first siege equipment is known from Egyptian tomb reliefs of the 24th century BC, showing Egyptian soldiers storming Canaanite town walls on wheeled siege ladders.

Later Egyptian temple reliefs of the 13th century BC portray the violent siege of Dapur, a Syrian city, with soldiers climbing scale ladders supported by archers.

A more detailed historical account from the 8th century BC, called the Piankhi stela, records how the Nubians laid siege to and conquered several Egyptian cities by using battering rams, archers, and slingers and building causeways across moats.

During the summer of 1172, a Nubian army along with a contingent of Armenian refugees were reported on the Egyptian border, preparing for a siege against Aswan.

However part of the Gaza Strip borders Egypt, so any siege would require Egyptian compliance.

Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Missolonghi — put under siege by the Turks since April 1825 — fell in April 1826.

The Germans were given the opportunity to reinforce the Italians in North Africa with the Afrika Korps and by the end of April the weakened Western Desert Force had been pushed all the way back to the Egyptian border, leaving Tobruk under siege.

Facing stubborn resistance from the Crusader garrison, an Egyptian flotilla was sent by as-Salih Ayyub to aid in the siege and on October 24, Fakhr ad-Din's troops stormed through a breach in the walls and killed or captured the entire garrison.

These forces, under Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel, drove the Allies back across Cyrenaica to the Egyptian border, leaving Tobruk isolated and under siege.

Five Israeli Brigades were involved: The 8th Armoured Brigade commanded by Yitzhak Sadeh ; the Negev Brigade ; the Golani Brigade ; the Harel Brigade ; and the Alexandroni Brigade whose task was to maintain the siege of the 4, 000 strong Egyptian brigade at Faluja.

The village was razed by the troops of Napoleon during their return to Egypt after their failed siege of Acre in 1799, and the British traveller James Silk Buckingham, who passed through the village (" El Mukalid ") in 1816, described it as still " rather poor ", while noting that the village resembled an Egyptian one in form and constructions of its huts.

However, the Saudis ' conquest of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina drew the ire of the Ottoman Empire, the major Islamic power at the time, led to the Ottoman-Saudi War of 1811 – 1818 and an invasion of Arabia by Ottoman and Egyptian forces brought the Saudi state to an end in 1818, with Diriyah capitulating after a nearly-year-long siege.

The same year he joined the Siege of Malta with the Ottoman Egyptian fleet, and when Turgut Reis was killed during the siege, Piyale Pasha appointed Uluj Ali to become Turgut's successor as Bey of Tripoli.

It was evacuated following an Egyptian siege in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The king receives a letter from the Egyptian queen, while being in siege on Karkemish.

The Egyptian siege of Dapur in the 13th century BC, from Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt | Thebes.

The earliest representations of siege warfare date to the Protodynastic Period of Egypt, c. 3000 BC, while the first siege equipment is known from Egyptian tomb reliefs of the 24th century BC showing wheeled siege ladders.

* Three ancient Egyptian Sieges: Megiddo, Dapur, Hermopolis

In the early Late Bronze Age, Canaanite confederacies were centered on Megiddo and Kadesh, before again being brought into the Egyptian Empire and Hittite Empire.

* Battle of Megiddo ( 15th century BC ), a battle between Ancient Egyptian forces under the pharaoh Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition

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The Egyptian army of Pharaoh Necho II was delayed at Megiddo by the forces of King Josiah of Judah.

Megiddo is also known as, Megiddó / Mageddón in the Septuagint ; ; Assyrian: Magiddu, Magaddu ; Magidda and Makida in the Amarna tablets ; Egyptian: Maketi, Makitu, and Makedo.

Megiddo is mentioned in Ancient Egyptian writings because one of Egypt's mighty kings, Thutmose III, waged war upon the city in 1478 BC.

* Battle of Megiddo ( 15th century BC ): fought between the armies of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition led by the rulers of Megiddo and Kadesh.

The Battle of Megiddo ( 15th century BC ) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh.

The Battle of Megiddo was an Egyptian victory and resulted in a rout of the Canaanite forces, which fled to safety in the city of Megiddo.

Now, the Egyptian army had a clear path to Megiddo, with large parts of the rebel army far away to the north and south.

These battles which have become known as the Battle of Megiddo, were fought between Allied Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group in what was then the central and northern parts of Ottoman Palestine and parts of present-day Israel, Syria and Jordan, and resulted in many tens of thousands of prisoners and many miles of territory being captured by the Allies.

The operations of General Edmund Allenby, the British commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Megiddo, achieved decisive results, including the capture of great numbers of prisoners and many miles of territory, at comparatively little cost, in contrast to many offensives during the First World War.

Yokneam appears in the list of 119 conquered cities by Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III after the victory in the Megiddo battle ( 1468BC ).

Also in September 1918, before the Battle of Megiddo ( 1918 ) the Egyptian Expeditionary Force commanded by General E. Allenby, masked the movement of three cavalry division from the eastern end of the front line to the western end on the Mediterranean Sea, where the successful infantry breakthrough was exploited by the mounted divisions.

As an Egyptian with links to Scotland, Al-Fayed was intrigued enough to fund a 2008 reprint of the 15th century chronicle Scotichronicon by Walter Bower.

The first mention of this metropolis is found in the ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna letters, dating from the 15th century BC.

Both bourgeoisie and nobility in the 15th and 16th century showed great fascination with these arts, which exerted an exotic charm by their ascription to Arabic, Jewish, Gypsy and Egyptian sources.

Waite dismissed as baseless the belief that the Tarot was Egyptian in origin, and noted that no evidence of the cards exists prior to the 15th century.

Egyptian sources do not mention his name ; that he was the king of Naharin whom Thutmose III fought against in the 15th century BC can only be deduced from assumptions.

The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa ' im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa ' id al-Su ' ada.

After the Egyptian conquest of Beit She ’ an by pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BCE ( recorded in an inscription at Karnak ), the small town on the summit of the Tell became the center of the Egyptian administration of the region.

Prior to the 3rd Intermediate Period of Egypt from the ( 15th century BCE ), names of semitic-speaking pastoral cattle nomadic peoples of the Levant appear, replacing previous Egyptian concern with the Hurrianised ' prw (' Apiru or Habiru ).

Faience that was produced in ancient Egyptian antiquity as early as 3500 BC was in fact superior to the tin-glazed earthenware of the European 15th century.

After expelling the Hyksos 15th dynasty, the native Egyptian New Kingdom rulers became more aggressive in reclaiming control of their state's borders.

He moved to Egyptian League giants Zamalek SC on May, 15th, 2012 from Al-Masry.

1989 The 15th Festival of the Egyptian Film Society

In the 15th century BC, Egyptian galleys were still depicted with the distinctive extreme sheer, but had by then developed the distinctive forward-curving stern decorations with ornaments in the shape of lotus flowers.

The earliest such synchronisms appear in the 15th century BC, during the Amarna Period, when we have a considerable quantity of diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian Kings Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, and various Near Eastern monarchs.