Dr. Bret Devereaux

So it's a small company.

200 men.

Now, of course, we should note it's 200 fighting men.

Yes.

So you can safely assume that there are more people there.

This is probably a force of 300 to 400 people moving across the countryside.

They're infantry, so it's not – if this were knights, then you don't multiply by five.

Right.

But these are infantrymen, so you don't need people managing a ton of horses.

Right.

But it's safe to bet that at least 25% to 50% of this force is going to be noncombatant.

So 300, 400 men probably moving around.

But then still, as armies go quite small, and the smaller you get, the faster you can move.

Camp breakdown and setup is quicker with smaller force.

You also physically take up less roadway.

I think folks don't think about that, but if you imagine an army that is 20,000 men,

That army might occupy three, four, five miles of roadway from end to end, which means in the morning after you've broken up the camp, especially once you've added carts and wagons, they take up a ton of space.

In the morning, that means that the last guys leaving camp have to sit there for several hours.

watching five miles of army march past them before they can get on the road and go and at the end of the day the front of the army gets to the camp they're probably setting up the camp but they need several miles of army to come all the way back in and so that eats up time so a smaller force can move much more quickly you know

20 miles a day for infantry is brisk.