Highly recommend the Age of Napoleon podcast, which has some good long sections about military logistics on this point during its earlier episodes on Napoleon's early career. Really helps to visualize the nuts and bolts of moving a bunch of soldiers around even across relatively small distances.
Napoleon tendered a prize to anyone who could figure out how to make shelf stable food for his armies. One of the first major milestones in canned food was someone claiming that prize, but he used metal cans (no lining) and so the food wasn’t really edible, although it did in fact not spoil.
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Highly recommend the Age of Napoleon podcast, which has some good long sections about military logistics on this point during its earlier episodes on Napoleon's early career. Really helps to visualize the nuts and bolts of moving a bunch of soldiers around even across relatively small distances.
Napoleon tendered a prize to anyone who could figure out how to make shelf stable food for his armies. One of the first major milestones in canned food was someone claiming that prize, but he used metal cans (no lining) and so the food wasn’t really edible, although it did in fact not spoil.