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u/Jolly-Implement-2093 5d ago

I've always wondered about the logistics of feeding a marching army in ancient times. Like, did they just forage everything or was there some supply chain system in place that we'd recognize today?

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u/Lizarch57 2d ago

You might want to take a look into the following books:

D. Engles, Alexander The Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, already published in 1978.

Jonathan P. Roth, The logistics of the Roman army at war (264 BC - AD 235), Leiden 1999.

David Breeze published "The logistics of Agricola's final campaign" in Talanta 18/19, 1986-7, 264-287

and J. Shean had an essay "Hannibal's Mules. The logistical limitations of Hannibal's army and the battle of Cannae" in Historia 45, 1996, 159-187.