The Ox-Drawn Cart
Military Logistical Transport’s First Standard
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At the Battle of Kadesh, Ramses II revolutionized Egyptian logistics by introducing the ox-drawn cart, which quickly became the standard mode of military logistical transport for almost a thousand years. Xenophon recorded that the normal pack load for a single ox-drawn cart in Greek armies was 25 talents, or approximately 1,450 pounds compared to mules used by the British in WWI, which could carry only around 300 hundred pounds.
Incidentally, this proves that the Egyptians were the first inventors of modularization - the foundation of what is now known in Defence Forces as 'Containerization'.
