Bangkok--20 Jan--Image Impact
Title: Battles BC: Ramses: Raging Chariots
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D18
Date & Time: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 9.00 p.m.
A seemingly insignificant border battle sparks a massive armed engagement between the Egyptians and the Hittites, two superpowers of the ancient world. What begins as a dispute over a buffer zone escalates quickly into a struggle for regional dominance as two of the great Empires of the Ancient world trade blows. The Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses is baited into overextending his armies, believing the first fighting force to arrive at the contested city of Kadesh will be victorious. But Ramses has been deceived... the Hittite Army lies in wait. They strike when he is at his weakest, and his troops exhausted. Ramses suffers desertion and heavy losses. His weakened force is surrounded on three sides. Amazingly, the pure fighting ability of the Egyptian soldiers is enough to enable them to battle their way out of their corner and escape.