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This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Egypt and its predecessor states.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Unification Wars of Upper Egypt (c. 3600–3200 BC) | Thinis | Naqada | Thinis victory
|
Scorpion I | Unknown,but in the thousands
king Taurus killed |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt | Upper Egypt | Lower Egypt | Upper Egypt victory | Narmer | ? |
Egypto-Nubian conflict (c. 3100–3000 BC) | First Dynasty of Egypt | A-Group culture (Nubia) | Victory | Djer or Djet[2] | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Egyptian Campaign in Nubia and Libya (c. 2600 BC)[3][4][5] | Fourth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubians, Libyans | Victory
|
Sneferu | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Egyptian Campaign in Lower Nubia (c. 1953 BC)[6] | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt | Various peoples in Lower Nubia. | Victory
|
Senusret I | ? |
Egyptian Campaign in Nubia (c. 1870–1859 BC)[7] | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt | Various Nubian peoples | Victory
|
Senusret III | ? |
Egyptian Campaign in Canaan (Between c. 1880 and c. 1840 BC) | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt | Shechem Retjenu |
Victory
|
Senusret III | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Theban-Hyksos conflict | Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt | Hyksos | Victory
|
Seqenenre Tao,Kamose, Ahmose I | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Egyptian Campaign in the Levant (1458–1457 BC) | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Canaanites Kadesh Megiddo Kingdom of Mitanni Hurrians |
Victory
|
Thutmose III | 4,000 at the Battle of Megiddo |
Egyptian conquest of Cyprus | Cyprus | Victory
|
? | ||
Egyptian-Hittite conflict | Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Hittites | inconclusive[11]
|
Seti I, Ramses II | ? |
Sea Peoples' invasion of Egypt | Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt | Sea Peoples | Victory | Ramses III | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Monarch | Egyptian losses |
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Egyptian campaign against the Kingdom of Judah | Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt | Kingdom of Judah | Victory | Necho II | Undetermined, but low |
Egyptian Babylonian war | Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt | Neo-Babylonian Empire | Victory
|
? | |
Egyptian conquest of Cyprus | Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt | Cyprus | Victory
|
Amasis II | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Sultan | Egyptian losses |
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Third Crusade
(1189–1192) |
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Stalemate
|
Saladin | ? |
Crusade of 1197
(1197–1198) |
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Defeat
|
Al-Aziz Uthman | ? |
Fifth Crusade
(1217–1221) |
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Victory
|
Al-Kamil | ? |
Sixth Crusade
(1228–1229) |
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Stalemate
Diplomatic Crusader victory
|
Al-Kamil | ? |
Baron's Crusade
(1239–1241) |
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Defeat
|
As-Salih Ayyub | ? |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Head of State | Egyptian losses | |
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World War I (1914–1918) |
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Victory
|
Hussein Kamel | 14,763+ | |
Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition (1916) |
Sultanate of Darfur | Victory
|
5 | |||
Egyptian Revolution (1919) |
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Diplomatic Revolutionary Victory
|
Fuad I | 800 |
Conflict | Egypt and allies |
Opponents | Results | Head of State | Minister of Defense |
Egyptian losses | |
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Military | Civilians | ||||||
Suez Crisis (1956) |
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Inconclusive
Coalition military victory[24][25][26]
|
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Abdel Hakim Amer | 1,650– 3,000 |
~1,000 |
Conflict | Egypt and allies |
Opponents | Results | Head of State | Minister of Defense |
Egyptian losses | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Military | Civilians | ||||||
North Yemen Civil War (1962–1967) |
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Stalemate
|
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Abdel Wahab el-Beshry | 26,000 dead[27] | None |
Sand War (1963) |
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Stalemate
|
Unknown | None | ||
Six-Day War (1967) |
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Defeat
|
Shams Badran | 9,800–15,000 killed or missing[28][29] | Unknown | |
War of Attrition (1967–1970) |
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Both sides claimed victory
|
Mohamed Fawzi | 2,882[30]–10,000[31] | ||
Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) |
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Victory (Limited Involvement) | Unknown | None |
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