Víveres - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:54:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Víveres - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Provision of food supplies to the Spanish army in 1738 https://historylab.es/provision-of-food-supplies-to-the-spanish-army-in-1738/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=provision-of-food-supplies-to-the-spanish-army-in-1738 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/provision-de-viveres-al-ejercito-espanol-en-1738/ Table showing the cost of food supplies for the Spanish army by region and for the Court and Royal Sites in 1738

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]]> The arrival of the Bourbons to the Spanish throne at the beginning of the 18th century brought about a new conceptualisation of the State by taking on functions that either corresponded to the private sphere or were considered archaic as a remnant of the medieval past. In this context, during the 1930s, the State sought to bring order to the lack of control that existed in the private supply of provisions to the army. To this end, the General Accountant’s Office for the Provision of Army Provisions was created. Thus, the author shows how in 1738 more than 10% of the rations of bread and bushels of barley destined for the army were given to the troops of the Court and Royal Sites; 3,093,330 reales compared to the 27,211,024 that the supplies cost for the battalions and squadrons stationed in the territories of the national geography of the peninsula and Mallorca. The proportion of the bushels of barley destined for the Court and Royal Sites increased to 20% of the total expenditure on this item, an expenditure based on the greater proportional presence of cavalry among the troops of the Court and Sites. In sum, the cost of 30,185,372 rations of bread and 713,455 bushels of barley for the army was valued at more than 30 million reales.

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