"Appetite For War: What Napoleon And His Men Ate On The" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Jan 2021 4:51 p.m. PST |
… March "On the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte's most celebrated statement about food and warfare — "An army marches on its stomach" — is worth recalling. Except there is no record of him saying it. Just as there is no record of Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake." If he did say it, the words would have been as hollow as the stomachs of his soldiers. Though one of the greatest military generals of all time, Napoleon was surprisingly negligent about feeding his army…"
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Raynman  | 05 Jan 2021 8:24 p.m. PST |
I thought he split his army into smaller sections so they could forage from the countryside and still be where they were needed to be. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 05 Jan 2021 8:53 p.m. PST |
Courtesy of National Public Radio website |
| USAFpilot | 05 Jan 2021 9:43 p.m. PST |
I think most modern urban and suburban dwellers wouldn't last long if they had to "forage from the countryside" for their sustenance. :-) |
| Tango01 | 06 Jan 2021 11:54 a.m. PST |
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| Major Bloodnok | 06 Jan 2021 12:05 p.m. PST |
"Forage from the countryside" ie requisitioning from the locals with or without payment, or quasi legal looting. |
| YankeeDoodle | 07 Jan 2021 10:40 a.m. PST |
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| Oliver Schmidt | 07 Jan 2021 10:44 a.m. PST |
Here an overview of the food which was to be supplied to the soldiers according to the regulations: demi-brigade.org/nourride.htm (in German only, sorry) |
| Tango01 | 07 Jan 2021 12:56 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement
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| 42flanker | 07 Jan 2021 1:18 p.m. PST |
"…quasi legal…"????? Approved by military authority, perhaps? |
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