Napoleonic MRE

[Lemony88]

Napoleon was the first one, as i know, Who put MRE to the test. Do any of you have som info on what kind of food was first introduced to that MRE?

[WorkmanMRE]

This is all I could find! Cool idea though, I will look further, got me curious! Im almost thinking Sailors of the past had a few good MREs up there selves, like salted beef and pickled veg.

"Napoleon was surprisingly negligent about feeding his army.

His orders for the Grande Armée's rations were ample enough: "Soup, boiled beef, a roasted joint and some vegetables; no dessert." But bad roads and poor weather often prevented supply wagons from reaching campsites in time." End Quote

[mp43sniper]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/20 ... -the-march

[Lemony88]

This is all I could find! Cool idea though, I will look further, got me curious! Im almost thinking Sailors of the past had a few good MREs up there selves, like salted beef and pickled veg.

"Napoleon was surprisingly negligent about feeding his army.

His orders for the Grande Armée's rations were ample enough: "Soup, boiled beef, a roasted joint and some vegetables; no dessert." But bad roads and poor weather often prevented supply wagons from reaching campsites in time." End Quote

Thanks im new to this site, but i´ve always been interested to history and thought about it alot and thought some had some idea

[Mattm199]

I always remember the elegantly named Portable Soup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_soup
The precursor of the bouillon cube that’s still in some international packs, sometimes called “soup or gravy base”.

[LaSwede]

Thanks for the read! Also quite interested in history, acutually finished a 1 year archeology class last spring. But to graduate as a archelologist, involved me being away from my family for 3 x 2 months, and couldn't cope with that.. but learned alot about the human history and how society has evolved

[BTemple]

Thanks for the read! Also quite interested in history, acutually finished a 1 year archeology class last spring. But to graduate as a archelologist, involved me being away from my family for 3 x 2 months, and couldn't cope with that.. but learned alot about the human history and how society has evolved

My brother is a professional Archaeologist and has been now for almost 20 years... it's a fascinating field of study. I helped him with an assessment project once near our hometown.

[LaSwede]

Thanks for the read! Also quite interested in history, acutually finished a 1 year archeology class last spring. But to graduate as a archelologist, involved me being away from my family for 3 x 2 months, and couldn't cope with that.. but learned alot about the human history and how society has evolved

My brother is a professional Archaeologist and has been now for almost 20 years... it's a fascinating field of study. I helped him with an assessment project once near our hometown.

Wow that's really cool! Did you find anything interesting during the excavation? I presume it was the kind of excavation that is done before a new area is developed?

[BTemple]

Thanks for the read! Also quite interested in history, acutually finished a 1 year archeology class last spring. But to graduate as a archelologist, involved me being away from my family for 3 x 2 months, and couldn't cope with that.. but learned alot about the human history and how society has evolved

My brother is a professional Archaeologist and has been now for almost 20 years... it's a fascinating field of study. I helped him with an assessment project once near our hometown.

Wow that's really cool! Did you find anything interesting during the excavation? I presume it was the kind of excavation that is done before a new area is developed?

No we didn't find anything that day. And yeah it was because of a new housing development. We have to do that a lot here, all the various native groups that have lived here, especially the Beothuk, who only lived in Newfoundland and disappeared in the 1800's. Also 500 years of European settlement in the area too.

He has found a lot of interesting stuff over the years... and has run a number of his own digs.