CHAPTER XXXVIII.
During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise.
Paaker had given his false report of the enemy's movements to the Pharaoh with his own hand; a council of war had been held, and each division had received instructions as to where it was to take up its position.

The corps, which bore the name of the Sungod Ra, advanced from the south towards Schabatun, [Kadesh was the chief city of the Cheta, i.e.Aramaans, round which the united forces of all the peoples of western Asia had collected.

There were several cities called Kadesh.

That which frequently checked the forces of Thotmes III.

may have been situated farther to the south; but the Cheta city of Kadesh, where Rameses II.