Egypt
See also: List of Battles of Egypt- Battle of Bitter Lakes - 925 BC - Shoshenq I of Egypt defeats a Bedouin incursion after surprising the enemy at the shores of the Bitter Lakes.
- Battle of Pelusium - 525 BC - Egypt almost annexed by Persia.
- Battle of the Nile (47 BC) - 47 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the forces of the Egyptian king Ptolemy XIII
- Battle of the Pyramids - 1798 - Napoleon defeats Mameluks in Egypt
- Battle of the Nile - 1798 - Defeat of Napoleonic forces in Egypt
- Battle of Kafr el-Dawwar - 1882 - Ahmed Urabi defeated British forces.
- Battle of Tel al-Kebir - 1882 - Defeat of Urabi by British
- Battle of Gazala - 1942 - Axis attack on British Forces around Tobruk
- Battle of Alam Halfa - 1942 - Axis attack on British Forces around El Alamein
- Battle of El Alamein - 1942 - Allied attack on Axis Forces
- Battle of Kasserine Pass - 1942 - Axis attack on Allied Forces (USA) on Tunisia
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“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)