Timeline for Possible distance travelled by horse over 6 weeks?
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:19 | comment | added | Tonny | I've seen the same figures for Roman cavalry units. I've also have seen mentioned they only actually traveled about 5 to 6 hours a day. Breaking camp/packing up gear, unpacking gear/setting up/fortifying the next camp, cooking meals. All of that together seems to have taking more time than actually traveling. And on regular (peace-time) travel they only did all of this in daylight. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 14:15 | history | edited | fgysin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 14:08 | history | answered | fgysin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |