Persian Invasion of 480 BC - articles

[Anonymous]

I was thinking of this statement below. It implies that you believed that Xerxes could afford to let his troops starve without badly compromising their combat efficiency and ability to intimidate.

Sorry! Yes, it does give that impression but, as I've said elsewhere, I meant that he was expecting only to need enough food for a short campaign and wouldn't have felt any need to take the possibility of a long campaign on short rations into consideration.

Were you using a modern mill or a replica?

Well. It's a modern mill in the sense that it's probably only about a hundred years old, or less, but it still works on the power of the human arm! (Two stones and a stick, sort of thing.)