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The Battle of Farcamar was fought between the armies of Ancient Egypt and the Libu in 1187 BC amid the Late Bronze Age collapse.

The 1180s BC saw Ancient Egypt beset by attacks from the vicious Sea Peoples to the north and the Libu tribes of the Western Desert to the west. Having subdued most of the Libyan desert tribes, Pharaoh Ramesses III dispatched several generals to hold the western frontier against the Libyan hosts. When the Libyan warlord Paru led his army across the desert, Khorenpti was dispatched to intercept and destroy his army. Khorenpti's army was smaller, slightly depleted by desert attrition, and had far less bowmen than the Libu, whose archers were superior to the Egyptians'. When the two armies met, the Egyptians took up positions on a sandy hillside. They attacked downhill as the Libyans approached, but they suffered heavy losses to Libyan bowmen in the midst of their melee fighting. Ultimately, the battle broke up into a confused slaughter as the two armies broke cohesion and engaged in unit-on-unit brawls. The Egyptians narrowly got the better of the Libyans and routed them, although they were unable to launch a pursuit due to suffering heavy losses in a near-disaster. Khorenpti promptly retreated to Ua and recruited additional forces to his army to help defend against continued Libyan forays.

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