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Updated: May 13, 2025
To levy these provisionings upon us and the neighboring tribes of Vannes; to force us to carry the requisitions to Touraine and Anjou with our oxen and horses which the Romans will surely keep also, and all that at the very season of the late sowing and of our autumn labors; to ruin next year's harvest; why, that is to reduce us to living upon the grass that would have fed the cattle that they rob us of!"
He would have marked the long trains, packed with men or piled with great guns and war material, creeping slowly, alert for train-wreckers, along the north-going lines; he would have seen the Scheldt and Rhine choked with shipping, and pouring out still more men and still more material; he would have noticed halts and provisionings and detrainments, and the long, bustling caterpillars of cavalry and infantry, the maggot-like wagons, the huge beetles of great guns, crawling under the poplars along the dykes and roads northward, along ways lined by the neutral, unmolested, ambiguously observant Dutch.
We have, no doubt, even in our own day, cruel experience of the disorders and evils of war; but we can form, one would say, but a very incomplete idea of what they were in the fourteenth century, without any of those humane administrative measures, still so ineffectual, provisionings, hospitals, ambulances, barracks, and encampments, which are taken in the present day to prevent or repair them.
"How long must he stop here, Monsieur le Docteur?" "It depends," he said, looking at me thoughtfully. "Another week at all events. You want to take him home?" "He is better at home." "I must keep him for a week at all events." So that day I took over some provisionings for Krok, and found him well advanced with his building.
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