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Collections: Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move

Indeed, getting lost in\u00a0familiar\u00a0territory was a real hazard: Suetonius records that Julius Caesar, having encamped not far from the Rubicon\u00a0got lost\u00a0trying to find it, spent a whole night wandering trying to locate it (his goal being to make the politically decisive crossing with just a few close supporters in secrecy\u00a0first\u00a0before his army crossed). In the end he had to find a local guide to work his way back to it in the morning (Suet.\u00a0Caes. 31.2). So to be clear: famed military genius Julius Caesar got lost trying to find a 50 mile long river only about 150 miles away from Rome when he tried to cut cross-country instead of over the roads.

Apparently, Gulf War 1 was sort of a big deal in that even in 1991, you couldn’t just start randomly driving across sand dunes through the desert like that.

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