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This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Egypt and its predecessor states.
Egyptian victory
Egyptian defeat
Another result*
*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Egypt, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| War at Jebel Sahaba | Qadan people | Qadan people | ? | ? | ? |
| Siege of Naqada (c. 3270 BC) | Thinis | Naqada | Thinite victory
|
Scorpion I | Unknown,but in the thousands
king Taurus killed |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt | Upper Egypt | Lower Egypt | Upper Egypt victory | Narmer | ? |
| Egyptian expedition to Nubia | First Dynasty of Egypt | Nubian people | Victory | Hor-Aha | ? |
| Egypto-Nubian conflict (c. 3100–3000 BC) | First Dynasty of Egypt | A-Group culture (Nubia) | Victory | Djer or Djet[2] | ? |
| War of succession | Horus Bird | Sneferka | inconclusive
|
Hotepsekhemwy | ? |
| War of the gods | Khasekhemwy | followers of the god Horus
followers of the god Set |
Pharaoh victory
|
Khasekhemwy | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egyptian campaigns in Sinai | Third Dynasty of Egypt | Sinai inhabitants | Victory
|
Djoser | ? |
| Egyptian Campaign in Nubia and Libya (c. 2600 BC)[3][4][5] | Fourth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubians | Victory
|
Sneferu | ? |
| Egyptian campaign in Nubia,Sinai and southern Canaan | Sixth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubians | Victory
|
Pepi I Meryre | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Theban-Hieraconopolis Struggle | Heracleopolis | Thebes Koptos Dendera |
Theban Victory
|
Mentuhotep I Intef I |
? |
| Sack of Thinis | Ninth Dynasty of Egypt | Thinis | Thinis Sacked | Nebkaure Khety | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reunification of Egypt | Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt (Thebes) | Tenth Dynasty of Egypt (Heracleopolis) | Theban victory
|
Mentuhotep II | ? |
| Egyptian campaign in nubia | Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt | Nubia | Victory
|
Mentuhotep II | ? |
| Expedition to Punt | Eleventh dynasty of Egypt | Land of Punt | Victory
|
Mentuhotep III | ? |
| Egyptian Campaign in Lower Nubia (c. 1953 BC)[6] | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt | Various peoples in Lower Nubia. | Victory
|
Senusret I | ? |
| Destruction of Iuai and Iasy | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt | Inhabitants of Iuai and Iasy | Victory
|
Amenemhat II | ? |
| 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 | ? |
| Expedition to Nubia | Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubians | Victory | Amenemhat III | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exile to southern Egypt | Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Victory for the fourteenth Dynasty of egypt
|
Yakbim Sekhaenre | ? |
| uprising of the 16th Dynasty | Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Defeat
|
Nebiryraw I | ? |
| separation of central Egypt | Abydos Dynasty | Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt | Victory for Abydos dynasty | Pantjeny | ? |
| Theban-Hyksos conflict | Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt | Hyksos | Victory
|
Seqenenre Tao, Kamose, Ahmose I | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egyptian compaigns in the Levant and Syria | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Asiatics | Victory
|
Ahmose I | ? |
| Egyptian campaign in Nubia | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubians | Victory
|
Thutmose I | ? |
| Egyptian campaign in the Levant and Syria | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Canaanites | Victory
|
Thutmose I | ? |
| Rebellions in Nubia | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubians rebels | Victory
|
Thutmose I | ? |
| Nubian Rebellion | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubian rebels | Victory
|
Thutmose II | ? |
| Egyptian conquest of Cyprus | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Cyprus | Victory
|
Thutmose III | ? |
| Egyptian conquest of Punt[10] | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Punt | Victory | Thutmose III | ? |
| 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 |
| Conquest of Syria | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Asiatics | Victory
|
Thutmose III | ? |
| Egyptian attack on Mitanni | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Mitanni | Victory
|
Thutmose III | ? |
| Egyptian campaign in Nubia | Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Nubia | Victory
|
Thutmose III | ? |
| Egyptian-Hittite conflict | Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Hittites | inconclusive[12]
|
Seti I, Ramses II | ? |
| Sea Peoples' invasion of Egypt | Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt | Sea Peoples | Victory | Ramses III | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expedition to siwa | Egyptian rebels | Victory
|
Petubastis III | ? | |
| Petubastis III revolt | Egyptian rebels | Defeat
|
Petubastis III | ? | |
| Psammetichus IV revolt | Egyptian rebels | Victory | Psammetichus IV | ? | |
| Wars of the Delian League | Egyptian rebels | Inconclusive
|
Inaros II | ? | |
| Inaros II revolt | Egyptian rebels | Victory | Inaros II | Undetermined, but low | |
| Battle of Mendesium | Egyptian rebels | Defeat
|
Inaros II | ? | |
| Amyrtaeus revolt | Egyptian rebels | Victory | Amyrtaeus | ? | |
| Invasion of Asia Minor (396–394 BC) |
Egypt | Victory | Nepherites I | ? | |
| Persian attack on Egypt (385 BCE) |
Egypt | Victory | Hakor | Undetermined, but low | |
| Achaemenid invasion of egypt (374 BCE) |
Egypt | Greek mercenaries Arabs |
Victory
|
Nectanebo I | ? |
| Egyptian expedition into Palestine and Phoenicia | Egypt | Victory
|
Teos of Egypt | ? | |
| Nakhthorheb rebellion | Teos of Egypt | Nakhthorheb | Victory for Nakhthorheb and his father
|
Teos of Egypt | ? |
| Phoenician rebellion | Egypt
Phoenician rebels |
Inconclusive | Nectanebo II | ? | |
| Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt | Egypt | Defeat
|
Nectanebo II | ? | |
| Wars of Alexander the Great | Macedonian Empire
Hellenic League Egyptian rebels |
Balkans: Illyrians Thracians Polis Western and Central Asia: Bactria Sogdia Uxiians India: Pauravas Aśvaka Guraens Mallians Oxydracians Amvastha |
Victory
|
Alexander the Great | ~1 million |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Pharaoh/Emperor | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjugation of upper Egypt | Gaius Cornelius Gallus | Rebels in Thebes | Roman victory
|
Augustus | ? |
| Conquest of Arabia Petraea and Arabia Felix | Gaius Aelius Gallus | Nabataeans | Defeat
|
Augustus | ? |
| Roman Campaign into the kingdom of kush | Gaius Petronius | Kingdom of Kush | Victory
|
Augustus | ? |
| Siege of Jerusalem | Roman Empire | Jewish rebels | Victory
|
Titus | ? |
| Diaspora Revolt | Roman Empire
|
Jewish rebels, primarily in: | Roman victory
|
Trajan | ? |
| Bucolic War | Avidius Cassius | Isidorus | Roman victory
|
Marcus Aurelius | ? |
| Usurpation of Avidius Cassius | Avidius Cassius | Publius Martius Verus | Inconclusive
|
Marcus Aurelius | Avidius Cassius beheaded |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | leader | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bashmurian revolt (720) | Victory
|
Mina, son of Apacyrus | ? | ||
| Bashmurian revolt (749) | Victory
|
Mina, son of Apacyrus | ? | ||
| makurian invasion of southern Egypt | Victory
|
unknown | ? | ||
| Bashmurian revolt (767) | Arab settlers |
Victory | unknown | ? | |
| Abbasid reconquest of Delta | Defeat
|
unknown | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Sultan | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alawite rebellion in egypt | Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? | |
| second Alawite rebellion in egypt | Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? | |
| Tulunid-beja border conflict | Tulunid dynasty | Victory | Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? | |
| Ifriqiya campaign | Aghlabid dynasty | Tulunid dynasty | Defeat
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? |
| Barqa revolt | Cyrenaica rebels | Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? |
| Abbasid invasion of Egypt (877) | Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? | |
| border Wars against the Byzantines | Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | ? | |
| Al-Abbas ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun's usurpation | Al-Abbas ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun | Loyalist troops | Loyalist victory
|
Ahmad ibn Tulun | Abbas was commanded to execute or mutilate the most prominent of his followers |
| Qarmatian attack on levant | Tulunid dynasty | Status quo ante bellum | Khumarawayh | ? | |
| Tulunid invasion of hejaz | Tulunid dynasty | Defeat | Khumarawayh | ? | |
| Tulunid-Abbasid conflict over the Levant | Tulunid Emirate | Tulunid victory
|
Khumarawayh Sa'd al-Aysar |
? | |
| second Abbasid conquest of Levant | Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Khumarawayh | ? | |
| Tulunid dynasty | Victory
|
Khumarawayh | ? | ||
| Abbasid Caliphate invasion of Tulunid-controlled Syria and Egypt (904–905) | Tulunid Emirate | Defeat
|
Harun ibn Khumarawayh | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Caliph | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulunid loyalists rebblion | Abbasid Caliphate | Muhammad ibn Ali al-Khalanji | Loyalist victory
|
Al-Mu'tadid | ? |
| Fall of the Tulunid emirate | Abbasid Caliphate | Tulunid Emirate | Abbasid victory
|
Al-khalanji | ? |
| Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915) | Abbasid Caliphate | Fatimid Caliphate | Stalemate
|
Al-Muqtadir | 10,000 to 20,000 dead |
| Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921) | Abbasid Caliphate | Fatimid Caliphate | Abbasid victory
|
Al-Muqtadir | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Sultan | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rise of the Ikhshidid dynasty | Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid | Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh | Ikhshidid Victory
|
Al-Radi | ? |
| Ikhshidid-Makurian conflict | Ikhshidid Emirate | Makuria | Ikhshidid Victory
|
Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid | ? |
| Fatimid conquest of Egypt | Ikhshidid dynasty | Fatimid Caliphate | Fatimid victory | Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Caliph | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persecution of the Druze | Fatimid Caliphate | Druze | Inconclusive
|
Al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah | ? |
| Nizar's rebellion | Loyalists | Nizar ibn al-Mustansir | Loyalist Victory
|
Al-Musta'li | ? |
| First Crusade | Muslim States Seljuk Empire Emirate of Rum Danishmendids Fatimid Caliphate |
Crusader armies |
Crusader Victory
|
Al-Musta'li | 12,700 at least |
| Venetian Crusade | Fatimid Caliphate Seljuk Empire Burid dynasty |
Republic of Venice Kingdom of Jerusalem County of Tripoli |
Crusader Victory
|
Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah | 4,000 |
| Crusader invasion of Egypt (1163–1169) |
|
Zengid-Fatimid victory
|
Al-Adid | ? | |
| Fatimid-Zengid conflict | Kingdom of Jerusalem | Zengid dynasty | Peace treaty
|
Al-Adid | ? |
| Revolt of the Blacks | Fatimid Caliphate Black-African Elites of the Fatimid army Fatimid Officials in Cairo Pro-Fatimid citizens of Cairo |
Ayyubids Saladin's Syrian, Kurdish and Turkish forces |
Ayyubid victory
|
Al-Adid | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Sultan | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayyubid conquest of North Africa | Ayyubid dynasty | Almohad | Ayyubid Victory | Saladin | ? |
| Almohad reconquest of Ifriqiya | Ayyubid dynasty | Almohad | Defeat
|
Saladin | ? |
| Ayyubid conquest of Yemen and Hejaz | Ayyubid dynasty | Arab tribes | Ayyubid Victory
|
Saladin | ? |
| Ayyubid conquest of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia | Ayyubid dynasty | Zengid | Ayyubid Victory
|
Saladin | ? |
| Battle of Hattin | Ayyubid Victory
|
Saladin | ? | ||
| Third Crusade
(1189–1192) |
Stalemate
|
Saladin | ? | ||
| Crusade of 1197
(1197–1198) |
Ayyubids | Indecisive
|
Al-Aziz Uthman | ? | |
| Fifth Crusade
(1217–1221) |
Muslim forces: |
Crusaders: Levant: Military orders: |
Ayyubid Victory
|
Al-Kamil | ? |
| Sixth Crusade
(1227–1229) |
Ayyubids of Egypt Ayyubids of Damascus |
Holy Roman Empire Teutonic Knights Kingdom of Sicily |
Crusaders victory | Al-Kamil | ? |
| Baron's Crusade
(1239–1241) |
Ayyubids of Damascus
|
Kingdom of Jerusalem French and Navarre crusaders English crusaders County of Habsburg |
Crusader diplomatic success | As-Salih Ayyub | ? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Sultan | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) |
Ayyubid Dynasty Bahris |
Kingdom of France Kingdom of Jerusalem Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller Kingdom of Navarre |
Ayyubid victory | Aybak | ? |
| Battle of al-Kura (1251) | Mamluks of Egypt | Ayyubids of Syria | Mamluk victory
|
Aybak | ? |
| Mongol invasions of the Levant (1260–1323) |
Mamluk Sultanate Ayyubid remnants |
Mamluk victory
|
Qutuz | ? | |
| Mamluk expeditions to the Levant and Anatolia (1265 – 1277) | Mamluk Sultanate | Victory
|
Baybars | ? | |
| Baybars's expedition to the Horn of Africa(1265–1276) | Mamluk Sultanate | Kingdom of Makuria | Victory
|
Baybars | ? |
| Fall of Outremer (1268–1302) |
|
Victory
|
Baibars | ? | |
| Ninth Crusade (1271–1272) |
Inconclusive | ||||
| Alexandrian Crusade (1365) |
Mamluk Sultanate | Defeat
|
Al-Ashraf Sha'ban | ? | |
| Mamluk campaigns against Cyprus (1424–1426) |
Victory
|
Barsbay | ? | ||
| Ottoman–Mamluk War (1485–1491) |
Supported By: |
|
Victory | Qaitbay | ? |
| Mamluk-Portuguese War (1505–1517) |
Supported by: Kingdom of Calicut |
Defeat | Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri | ? | |
| Mamluk-Tahirid war
(1515–1517) |
Mamluk Sultanate | Tahirid Sultanate | Victory
|
? | |
| Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) |
Ottoman victory
|
? |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Head of State | Egyptian losses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraser Expedition (1807) |
Victory | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | ? | ||
| Egyptian–Saudi War (1811–1818) |
Victory
|
8,000 casualties[23] | |||
| Egyptian conquest of Sudan
(1820–1824) |
Sennar Sultanate Shayqih Kingdom Sultanate of Darfur |
Victory
|
? | ||
| Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) |
Supported by: |
In detail: Military support:
Diplomatic support: |
Greek victory
Independence of Greece
|
over 8,000[25] | |
| First Egyptian–Ottoman War (1831–1833) |
Supported by: |
Victory
| |||
| Ottoman-Ethiopian border conflicts (1832–1848) |
Ottoman Empire | Ethiopian Empire | Inconclusive
|
? | |
| Expedition to Najd (1836) (1836) |
Victory
|
? | |||
| 1838 Druze revolt (1838) |
|
Druze clans supported by:
|
Victory
|
~400[26] | |
| Second Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841) |
Allies: |
Allies: |
Defeat
|
1,100+ | |
| Crimean War (1853–1856) |
Victory
|
Abbas I of Egypt | ? | ||
| Cretan revolt (1866–1869) |
Supported by: |
Victory
|
Isma'il Pasha | 1,333 | |
| Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874–1876) |
Ethiopian victory | 13,000+[27] | |||
| Egyptian invasion of the Eastern Horn of Africa
(1874–1885) |
Oromo Emirate of Harar |
Victory
|
? | ||
| Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878) |
Serbian victory
|
? | |||
| Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) |
Defeat
|
? | |||
| ‘Urabi Revolt (1879–1882) |
|
Defeat of ‘Urabi
|
Tewfik of Egypt | 2,250[31] | |
| Mahdist War (1881–1899) |
Victory
|
13,102[37][38]: 30, 33 |
| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Head of State | Egyptian losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War I (1914–1918) |
Allied Powers:
|
Central Powers:
|
Victory
|
Hussein Kamel | 14,763+ | |
| Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition (1916) |
|
Victory
|
5 | |||
| Egyptian Revolution (1918-1919) |
Egyptian victory
|
Fuad I | 800 | |||
| Conflict | Egypt and allies |
Opponents | Results | Head of State | Minister of Defense |
Egyptian losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military | Civilians | ||||||
| Jebel Akhdar War (1954–1959) |
Imamate of Oman Supported by: |
Sultanate of Muscat |
Defeat (Limited involvement)
|
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Abdel Hakim Amer | None | None |
| Suez Crisis (1956) |
Inconclusive
Coalition military victory[48][49][50]
|
1,650– 3,000 |
~1,000 | ||||
| Syrian Crisis of 1957 | Victory
|
None | None | ||||
| Conflict | Egypt and allies |
Opponents | Results | Head of State | Minister of Defense |
Egyptian losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military | Civilians | ||||||
| Lebanon crisis (1958) |
Najjadeh Party Progressive Socialist Party Lebanese Communist Party Al-Mourabitoun Supported by: |
Lebanese Armed Forces Kataeb Party Syrian Social Nationalist Party ARF Supported by: |
Inconclusive
|
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Abdel Hakim Amer | None | None |
| Mosul uprising 1959 |
|
Defeat (Limited involvement) | None | None | |||
| Syrian coup d'état (1961) |
Coup successful
|
None | None | ||||
| North Yemen Civil War (1962–1967) |
Stalemate
|
Abdel Wahab el-Beshry | 26,000 dead[59] | None | |||
| Sand War (1963) |
Stalemate
|
Unknown | None | ||||
| Aden Emergency
(1963–1967) |
NLF FLOSY Supported by: |
Federation of South Arabia Protectorate of South Arabia |
Strategic Victory | 300 Dead | Minimal to none | ||
| Ethiopian–Somali Border War | Supported by: |
Supported by: |
Stalemate | Minimal to none | Minimal to none | ||
| Six-Day War (1967) |
Minor involvement: |
Israeli victory
|
Shams Badran | 9,800–15,000 killed or missing[67][68] | Unknown | ||
| War of Attrition (1967–1970) |
|
Inconclusive | Mohamed Fawzi | 2,882[71]–10,000[72] | |||
| Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) |
Victory (Limited Involvement) | Unknown | None | ||||
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