Eli5: How did the medieval knights survive such long trips
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Knights and other armies would engages what is euphemistically referred to as “Foraging”
Foraging *is not* hunting for game and picking berries. Foraging is often forcibly taking food,grain, stores from farmers. *Wait* you say, that’s theft! You are correct.
Armies in friendly territories were often gentler about this, or there were methods to recompense the farmers in loyal territory. But farmers in hostile territory? Food and goods would be *confiscated*, often forcibly.
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