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Hello everyone.
I'm planning on writing a book (historical fiction) based in North Africa in the days of the late Roman empire. I'm busy gathering research for this project, and I thought I'd ask the historians on here.
My question is, what would life have been like for the Limitanae units garrisoned in north Africa?
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Ahem, modesty prescribes that I should not refer to my own website, but have you seen these pages?
[url:mhg0em8d]http://www.livius.org/li-ln/limes/tripolitanus.html[/url]
[url:mhg0em8d]http://www.livius.org/a/libya.html[/url]
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Many thanks for this information. I guess it's time to warm up the old printer and add it all to my growing pile of paperwork :lol:
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It would be hot there, much of the year once you got far from the Mediterranean breeze. On a patrol, water would be as important as anything else. Logistics of how to get it from point to point? I'm not sure. Goatskin bags on a mule, I guess, but 300 men can drink a whole bunch of water on a day's march. And horses drink 5 or 6 times as much.
Don't forget to factor that in.
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It'd get pretty darn cold at night too, so I'd imagine they'd be carrying blankets and all sorts.
Real name: Tobias Keddie (but I usually prefer Toby)
"I would rather people asked why I had no monument that why I had one" Marcus Porcius Cato
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