Dr. Bret Devereaux

And those bigger horses have nutritional requirements which cannot be fully satisfied by grass.

And so they have to be stall fed.

And so on the march, you need to supplement their grass with weed or oats or what have you in order to get them enough nutrition to just sustain their larger bulk.

Yeah, their bulk.

But this is just not a problem anymore.

for as old as first because he's not bringing a whole bunch of warhorses.

Warhorses tend to be huge.

Chargers and Destriers are massive.

To the degree he's bringing pack animals, they're presumably smaller and hardier creatures.

Right.

And as I understand it, as I remember earlier in the passage, he sent most of the rest of the army back by that route.

When speed wasn't an issue.

And so I think you can tell by his choice, right?

That's the safer route.

And presumably the rest of his army is mostly on foot too.

So you could take a foot force up that route.

It's the safer route.

It evidently would have been the wiser route.

but he has reason to want to move fast.

Yeah.