Dr. Bret Devereaux

But again, these are heroic sort of figures.

20 to 25 miles a day is what got Stonewall Jackson's army termed foot cavalry.

But it was possible.

Now, the other advantage that these guys have is they're moving basically straight up the Anduin.

While the infantry might be marching on foot next to the river, their supplies could be in rafts.

They're moving upriver, so they can't float down it, which is annoying, but the easy thing to do here is you take your horse or your mule, you attach a rope to them, you put the other side of the rope on the raft, you put the raft, and the animal pulls the raft upstream.

You know, classic, classic way to do this.

If you go to certain, now usually unused, but certain canal locks in the American Northeast,

You'll see they have the walking path for the, there would be mule that would pull the rafts if they were going up the locks rather than down the locks for canal systems.

That's how you do that.

And, you know, that makes it easier to move your supplies.

You need fewer animals to move your supplies.

Your army is smaller.

It's quicker.

So, I mean, I think this is a heroic pace, but not an impossible one.

I think for the full journey, I did it out and it's, it's what, 300, 400 leagues, which is 600 to 800 miles.

Yeah.

Okay, so I did a little short.

I measure on my physical map.

Because I had them moving at about, I think, 18 or 19 miles a day.