02-15-2012, 09:48 PM
Quote:Gaius Julius Caesar post=306857 Wrote:I will have to find this. And add it to my list of 'to reads'.First off, I don't know of any evidence that there were land supply lines (in the sense of a continuous flow of supplies overland from Persian Thrace). Ancient armies didn't use huge detachments to hold conquered territory; Alexander and the Romans used a few thousand second-rate troops scattered widely, and messengers with small bodyguards.
I still believe we can not totally discount the massive size of the invasion force.
What would be stopping the supply lines being cut, if there was not a garrison of the areas the forces moved through?
I think they might have kept some troops on the Hellespont though.