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Old 03-31-2020, 05:40 PM
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the question as to agriculture is how many horses, oxen, donkeys, etc. would have been converted to agriculture - the US in 1997 has 3.15 million horses, donkeys, mules and ponies - a lot would have been eaten of course but if even ten percent are still left that leave 310,000 such animals. In Europe the countries that had a lot of horses included the UK, France and Germany.

Given the level of fighting I would think that France is one place where they made the switch back to horses the most along with the UK (i.e. they wouldnt have been as many eaten by starving civilians as there would have been in places like Poland or Germany)
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