Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with Murray.

On my own again and we're going to be answering questions.

This one's a little bit in a way a follow-up to the last one.

Not really.

It wasn't intended to be a follow-up, but I said something in the last one.

And I realized, oh, that actually answers part of what we're about to talk about today.

And so this is your weekly fill of ancient warfare tidbits and hopefully interesting things that we say.

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And today's question is what happened to all the gear and

supplies after a big battle? What did people

tend to salvage?

Now, the last one I talked about was about potable water and whether a, you know,

a victorious army, one of the points I brought up was a victorious army.

If they took the enemy camp or supplies, even perhaps part of despoiling the enemy dead, might be to take their water supply, especially

if you were going without.

Not only that in terms of food supplies as well.

So losing a battle if it's not in your own backyard really is problematic in the sense

that you might not only be without your baggage train, you'll be without water and food and needing to get away.

So I think that those things in the source material are tending not to be emphasized.

We get lots of stories in the ancient sources about the baggage train got sacked or the enemy got into the baggage train or they attacked the

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