Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare answers.

My name is Jels Portaz.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine and with me is Murray Dom.

He's the assistant editor.

And today we're answering another, I think it's a patron question, isn't it, Murray?

I think so.

Yeah.

So if you're a patron, you can ask his questions.

Actually, if you're anybody, you can ask his questions, and we'll try to answer them.

This one's from David.

David at Patreon.

We might try to get to your answer.

Your question a bit faster than otherwise.

And you should because it allows us to keep talking about this.

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But right now we're going to talk about preparation for battle and how long did it take?

Murray.

So we've got the question that, you know, how long would it take an army to respond from camp if an enemy appeared?

And the bizarre thing is that we have battles where there are two sides encamped for a large number of days opposite one another, where one or both come out of their camp, form up for battle, and then a battle doesn't happen.

And, you know, in some cases, the Battle of Marathon, it's a week, a couple of other battles during the Peloponnesian War, it's five days, and then there's a battle after the five days.

Why?

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