How ancient armies, such as the Roman Legions, able to feed themselves during wartime campaigns?
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With great difficulty. There are basically five options, and they all have problems:
* You can bring food with you from your own territory overland, but that’s very difficult and you can’t feed a large army;
* You can bring food up on ships, but then you can’t go far from the coast;
* You can buy food from the locals, but they might be reluctant to sell, because, you know, you’re there to conquer them and they’re not into that;
* You can rob food from the locals, but then you can’t stay in one place for long, because the people you’re robbing are not going to leave their stuff where it’s easy for you to get it;
* You can defeat your enemy and take his food— but to do that, you have to win the war in the first place.
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