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Caesar's Great Success - Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign (Hardcover)
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Caesar's Great Success - Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign (Hardcover)
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Logistics have become a principle, if not a governing factor, in
modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied and
the larger the army, the greater the logistical difficulties that
have to be overcome. Two thousand years ago, when communications
were far more primitive, the size of armies was limited by the
difficulties of supply. It was because the Romans developed a
sophisticated supply system that they were able to maintain large
armies in the field - armies that conquered much of the then known
world. In Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on
Campaign the authors examine and detail the world's first ever
fully-developed logistical supply system - the forerunner of
today's complex arrangements. This includes an examination of the
sea, river and land transportation of food while on campaign, and
of how the food was assembled at the operational bases and
subsequently distributed. The defence of the Roman food supplies,
and especially of lines of communication, was an important factor
in Caesar's operational planning, as was interdicting the enemy's
supplies. The eating habits of Caesar's men are considered and what
items could be obtained locally by forage and which were taken by
requisition - and how much food a legionnaire was expected to carry
on campaign. With this, the nature of the actual food consumed by
the legionnaires is therefore examined and sample recipes are
provided with each chapter of the book to enable the reader to
relive those momentous days when Caesar and Rome ruled the world.
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