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Charidemus. d. 333 BC. 367–333 BC. Athens. Greek mercenary leader who served Athens, Thrace and Rhodes. Clearchus of Sparta. 411–401 BC. Spartan general and mercenary leader who joined Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to seize the Persian throne from Artaxerxes III. Diogenes of Judea.
A Highland mercenary fighting in Europe during the Thirty Years War, with a bow, plaid and blue bonnet. Redshank was a nickname for Scottish mercenaries from the Highlands and Western Isles contracted to fight in Ireland; they were a prominent feature of Irish armies throughout the 16th century. They were called redshanks because they went ...
Gallowglass. The Gallowglass (also spelled galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from Irish: gallóglaigh meaning "foreign warriors") were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of Ireland and Scotland between the mid 13th century and late 16th century. It originally applied to Scots, who ...
Thomas of Galloway. Gallowglass. Patrick Gordon. Alexander Gordon (general) Thomas Gordon (Royal Scots Navy officer) Samuel Greig.
Gaelic warfare. Irish gallowglass and kern. Drawing by Albrecht Dürer, 1521. Gaelic warfare was the type of warfare practiced by the Gaelic peoples (the Irish, Scottish, and Manx), in the pre-modern period. Part of a series on. War.
The names of the Reiver families are still very much apparent amongst the inhabitants of the Scottish Borders, Northumbria and Cumbria today. Reiving families (particularly those large or brutal enough to carry significant influence) have left the local population passionate about their territory on both sides of the Border.
Charles Cameron (army officer) John Cameron (British Army officer, born 1773) Sandy Campbell (British Army officer) Jock Campbell (British Army officer) Lorne MacLaine Campbell. Helen Cattanach. Robert Christie (footballer) William Clark-Kennedy. Hugh Cochrane.
Murray of Atholl. The Atholl Highlanders is a Scottish private infantry regiment. A ceremonial unit, it acts as the personal bodyguard to the Duke of Atholl, chieftain of the Clan Murray, a family that has lived in Perthshire for roughly seven centuries. [1] Although it has no official military role, this hand-picked body of local men are armed ...