Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 346 | When the men of Ar moved, for example, and whenever possible they would do so on the great military roads, such as the Viktel Aria, they used a measured pace, often kept by a drum, and, including rests, would each day cover a calculable distance, usually forty pasangs. |
| 3 | 347 | At forty-pasang intervals there would generally, on the military roads, be a fortified camp, supplied in advance with ample provisions. |
| 3 | 348 | Some of these camps became towns. |
| 3 | 349 | Later some became cities. |
| 3 | 350 | These roads and camps, and measures, made it possible to move troops not only efficiently and rapidly, but assisted in military planning. |
| 3 | 351 | One could tell, for example, how long it would take to bring a certain number of men to bear on a certain point. |
| 3 | 352 | The permanent garrisons of the fortified camps, too, of course, exercise a significant peace-keeping and holding role in the outer districts of a city's power. |
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When the men of Ar moved, for example, and whenever possible they would do so on the great military roads, such as the Viktel Aria, they used a measured pace, often kept by a drum, and, including rests, would each day cover a calculable distance, usually forty pasangs.
At forty-pasang intervals there would generally, on the military roads, be a fortified camp, supplied in advance with ample provisions.
Some of these camps became towns.
Later some became cities.
These roads and camps, and measures, made it possible to move troops not only efficiently and rapidly, but assisted in military planning.
One could tell, for example, how long it would take to bring a certain number of men to bear on a certain point.
The permanent garrisons of the fortified camps, too, of course, exercise a significant peace-keeping and holding role in the outer districts of a city's power.
- (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter )