Ka kammala wannan magana: A lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Amirka, rundunar sojojin Tarayyar da ta Tarayya sun yi ƙoƙari su rage yawan karusarsu don su kyautata yadda suke tafiyar da sojojinsu. An auna wannan a matsayin rabo na yawan karusai da sojoji, tare da lambar da aka tsara bisa ga Napoleon na 12.5 karusai da sojoji 1,000. Gabaɗaya, Confederates sun gudanar da ƙarancin rabo idan aka kwatanta da sojojin Union, kodayake wannan ya faru ne daga larura maimakon zaɓi, tare da jiragen Union da ke raguwa da girma tare da kowane kamfen na gaba. Ulysses S. Grant yawanci ya ba da izini ne kawai ga motoci 19 ga kowane sojoji 1,000, yayin da Stonewall Jackson ya gudanar da motoci 7 kawai ga kowane sojoji 1,000 a lokacin mulkinsa
Yakin Shenandoah.