Essays Tagged: "shock troops"
The New Kingdom Army
f approximately two hundred and fifty soldiers who were commanded by a standard bearer. A group of "shock troops" known as the Braves of the King served as the pharaoh's personal bodyguard.The inf ... ering rams and scaling ladders, trench digging pioneers and, after the reconquest of Nubia, Kushite shock troops and Nubian archers.This new army did not have all the centuries old traditions other ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt