...and just how much work it was keeping them moving.
If you use this link, it skips the less interest commercial at the start.
If you use this link, it skips the less interest commercial at the start.
Interesting video on the sheer scale of a Roman army on the march
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Almost anything about the Roman army just fascinates me.
Their engineering abilities are hard to believe.
Their engineering abilities are hard to believe.
While we're looking at the size or ancient armies...
It starts to amaze at 15:15 .
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It starts to amaze at 15:15 .
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Bit of a sidenote, but I've been listening to Dan Carlins podcast re. WWI.
And he says that at the height of the Roman Empire they had somewhere between 250k and 400k in the army to protect the entire realm. Sources obviously vary, but it's somewhere in that ball-park.
Now zoom back to the 20th century, and Germany had close to 1M men going through Belgium in August '14, just for the flanking move.....
Yes granted, the populations are much higher in the 20th century, but still it does illustrate why you can't run a modern army without some serious logistical support.
A million men means a million gallons of drinking water each day, plus food, plus fodder for the draught-horses, plus ammunition, plus replacements, plus....etc. Ad Nauseum.
And he says that at the height of the Roman Empire they had somewhere between 250k and 400k in the army to protect the entire realm. Sources obviously vary, but it's somewhere in that ball-park.
Now zoom back to the 20th century, and Germany had close to 1M men going through Belgium in August '14, just for the flanking move.....
Yes granted, the populations are much higher in the 20th century, but still it does illustrate why you can't run a modern army without some serious logistical support.
A million men means a million gallons of drinking water each day, plus food, plus fodder for the draught-horses, plus ammunition, plus replacements, plus....etc. Ad Nauseum.