Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
Sixteen military campaigns by Tuthmosis III to control Syria-Palestine in 1470-1425 BC; [Grammar Ancient World, p. 15]
"When she finally died, in about 1480 BC, Thutmose III, who is sometimes suspected of having had a hand in her death, wasted no time in assuming power and marching off to battle in his first year of solo rule. He also attempted to erase Hatshepsut’s name from history, ordering her monuments desecrated and her name chiseled out of inscriptions wherever possible." [1177 BC, Kindle, Location 700] "Tuthmosis III spent almost two decades campaigning into the northern reaches. He worked his way to Kadesh itself and forced its surrender; he claimed Aleppo; he even seized Carchemish, which brought him to the edge of Asia Minor." [Bauer: Ancient World, p. 209-12]