Quick questions on The expulsion of the Hyksos and Ahmose I: HSC Ancient History

The liberation was the work of three generations. Seqenenre Tao (r. c. 1560 BC), sometimes called "the Brave", appears to have opened the war with the Hyksos king Apepi.

Ahmose I (r. c. 1550 to 1525 BC), brother of Kamose and son of Seqenenre Tao and Queen Ahhotep, finished the war and founded the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom. Because our best account is the biography of Ahmose son of Ibana, we can trace the campaign: after a period of consolidation (Ahmose was young at his accession, and his mother Ahhotep seems to have acted as regent and rallied Upper Egypt), he assaulted and captured Avaris, then pursued the retreating Hyksos into southern Canaan and besieged the fortress of Sharuhen for about three years until it fell.

The single most important narrative source for this period is the autobiography of Ahmose son of Ibana, carved on the wall of his rock-cut tomb at el-Kab (ancient Nekheb) in Upper Egypt. Ahmose son of Ibana (named for his mother, Ibana, to distinguish him from the king and from another el-Kab soldier, Ahmose Pennekhbet) was a naval officer who served under Ahmose I, Amenhotep I and Thutmose I. His text narrates, in the first person, his part in the capture of Avaris, the siege of Sharuhen "for three years", and later Nubian campaigns, listing the "gold of valour", captives and grants of land he received for bravery.

Fix Avaris in the Delta (Hyksos) and Thebes in the south (Seventeenth Dynasty), and give the c. 1650 to 1525 BC framework.