MOC Food and Provisioning
The unglamorous logistical backbone that actually won and lost wars.
Subdomains
- Naval_Victualling_Index — salt beef, hardtack, grog, scurvy, victualling yards, water storage
- Army_Provisioning_Index — march rations, foraging, supply wagons, commissariat
- Agriculture_Food_Systems_Index — what fed the nations behind the armies
- Disease_Nutrition_Index — scurvy discovery, lemon juice, surgeon’s role, nutritional disease
- Famine_Shortage_Index — food crises that triggered wars and revolutions
Key Notes
- Acorn Planting Tradition — Collingwood Oaks — first filled agriculture-food-systems note; pocket-acorn habit only
- Malaria — Nelson in the Caribbean — first filled disease-nutrition note; Caribbean malaria only
- Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds — 150 / fifty only; overflow
- Manchineel Spring — San Juan 1780 — manchineel-boughs spring poisoning only; overflow
- Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780 — two hundred men, ten survivors only; overflow
- Boreas Three Years No Deaths — three-year Leeward Islands health claim only; overflow