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by automatic6131 956 days ago
>affected the civilian population less than in later ages

lol. lmao, even.

Just an army moving through a region - just walking, scouting and "foraging" (this doesn't mean bushes, this means looting from rural villages) - guarantees a famine for those involved. Only the invention of the railway prevented (no, lessened) this.