How ancient armies, such as the Roman Legions, able to feed themselves during wartime campaigns?
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One of the ways Napoleon was so successful was because of how quickly he could move his army around. He would advance so quickly because every City he took he picked clean, and used all the farm land to the disposal of the army. He brought very little food or supplies. He grabbed it on the go. He was able to move so fast that people weren’t able to pack up and go.
It’s actually what lost him the Russian campaign. He pulled up with 600k soldiers, with the anticipation that he would just pillage as he went feeding his huge army. Only problem was as the word spread, the Russians did something never seen before. They burned everything. Entire cities on fire. The army was decimated by this tactic. It wasn’t so much the cold that destroyed them as much as a lack of supplies.
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