Talk:Droving

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Drovers and the Hundred years' War

I am doubtful about the section on Britain, where it is said that:

"Henry V brought about a lasting boom in droving in the early fifteenth century when he ordered as many cattle as possible be sent to the Cinque Ports to provision his armies in France".

The source for this is this book by Verite Ryily Collins, 999 and other working dogs. Collins describes herself as "a journalist writing about everything from Skincare to Dogs". I have not been able to access the book referenced. However I have recently finished reading Jonathan Sumption's five-volume history of the Hundred Years' War, and I find that volume IV, dealing with Henry V, makes no mention of this. It was usual for cattle and other food to be supplied from the countryside in France, either by purchase or by looting. It was also more common for the English ships to sail from the Solent - Portsmouth/Southampton - which are not towns of the Cinque Ports. Thomas Peardew (talk) 08:36, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To merge, given that the two terms are synonyms, used in different countries. Klbrain (talk) 09:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It has been suggested to merge Cattle drive into Droving. Discuss. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 07:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the US context, of which cattle driving originated, no one would understand the terminology "droving"

Maybe you take the sections on Europe and Australia and add them to the Droving article, and instead make Cattle drive direct to Cattle drives in the United States. From that page you could add "for driving cattle in other locations, see "droving" and link to it. Nayyn (talk) 02:49, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should present a better explanation, but yes it would be good to merge the two. Cattle drive is just a type of droving. There is no reason why the US needs her own article especially given how brief it currently is. Traumnovelle (talk) 07:28, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Aside: note that Cattle drives in the United States has not been affected by this merge. Klbrain (talk) 09:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]