The Arab Conquest of Egypt And the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion
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They gave battle 2 to 'Amr, and at least saved their honour, though they suffered defeat, and the Arabs were able to continue their advance towards Nikiou. Nikiou lay, as we have seen, on the right bank of the river, near the place where the Pharaonic canal from Athrlb and Manijf joined the Nile. It was too strong a fortress to leave on his flank : so the Arab leader was compelled to cross the river for its reduction, and to recross subse- quently. The Roman commander therefore had a fine oppor...tunity for aggressive tactics. But instead of taking the command here in person with the bulk of his forces, Theodore relied on the weak and cowardly Domentianus to hold Nikiou with an inadequate garrison. Domentianus had a consider- able fleet of boats, which he meant to employ merely ' See Amdlineau, G^og. Copte, p. 493, ' C'est Ik qu' Apatir va passer le Nil, venant d'Alexandrie, pour se rendre k Babylone d'Egypte,' and the other references given. ^ This battle is recorded by Yakfit, who says, ' At Tarnfit there • was a battle between 'Amr and the Romans.' Makrtzi makes a strange blunder in this connexion.
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