Comments on: Something Comic Book Geeks and Historians Can All Agree On… http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/10/12/something-comic-book-geeks-and-historians-can-all-agree-on/ The Blog Of An Open Source Librarian, In Which There Is No Shushing Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:08:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Keith http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/10/12/something-comic-book-geeks-and-historians-can-all-agree-on/#comment-3390 Keith Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:48:15 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/10/12/something-comic-book-geeks-and-historians-can-all-agree-on/#comment-3390 The wildly differing numbers come from the various historians taking into account the support personal as well. Which still assumes that there was enough people on th emove to form their own roving nation the size of Virginia. So yeah, a little hyperbole was invovled. The wildly differing numbers come from the various historians taking into account the support personal as well. Which still assumes that there was enough people on th emove to form their own roving nation the size of Virginia. So yeah, a little hyperbole was invovled.

]]> By: Bryan http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/10/12/something-comic-book-geeks-and-historians-can-all-agree-on/#comment-3385 Bryan Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:58:20 +0000 http://sanchezkisser.com/blog/2006/10/12/something-comic-book-geeks-and-historians-can-all-agree-on/#comment-3385 The numbers are absurd. How could they feed that many people? If you can't feed them, you don't have an army. Instead of tactics a few historians should consider logistics and the food production in the areas invaded. The documented army of Ioann IV,[known incorrectly as Ivan the Terrible] was 3000 for all of the three Russias. The Mongols could feed larger than normal groups because they rode only mares and milked them. The numbers are absurd. How could they feed that many people? If you can’t feed them, you don’t have an army. Instead of tactics a few historians should consider logistics and the food production in the areas invaded.

The documented army of Ioann IV,[known incorrectly as Ivan the Terrible] was 3000 for all of the three Russias.

The Mongols could feed larger than normal groups because they rode only mares and milked them.

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