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If anything, the white mercenaries with their disdain for blacks, or in the case of Georgiou murderous hatred seemed to have depressed morale on the FNLA side. [161] Many of the mercenaries in Angola were not former professional soldiers as they claimed to have been, but instead merely fantasists who had invented heroic war records for themselves.
Mercenaries from the board game BattleTech are featured in several MechWarrior games. In Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War, the player commands a group of mercenaries. In Borderlands, players control one of four mercenaries and traverse the fictional planet of Pandora in search of a mysterious "Vault," which is said to contain priceless riches.
Janice E. Thomson, Mercenaries, pirates, and sovereigns: state-building and extraterritorial violence in early modern Europe Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN 1-4008-0801-4 Describes the building of the modern state system through the states' "monopolization of extraterritorial violence."
CARACAS (Reuters) -Two U.S. citizens have been arrested in Venezuela, part of a group of seven who President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday branded as "mercenaries," in the latest roundup ahead of the ...
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries [30] is a popular handbook in the Schlock Mercenary universe, with characters regularly quoting from it. It was originally called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates , [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] a parody of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , but after Tayler received a cease ...
Ten years later they were still in French service and appeared as the lead French infantry square at the Battle of Pavia, led by Francois de Lorraine and Richard de la Pole. In this battle they found themselves heavily outnumbered by two blocks of 12,000 Imperial Landsknechts opposing them, led by Georg von Frundsberg and Max Sittich von Ems ...
The "men's first love theory," the idea that men don't get over their first love, has left some social media users furiously nodding. "Men's first love theory is quite real trust me," wrote one X ...
The use of foreign mercenaries was widespread in the medieval Mediterranean world and mercenary units were common in Muslim, Byzantine and Papal armies. Muslim armies, in particular, relied regularly on non-Muslim or recently Islamicized warriors such as Turks and sub-Saharan Africans. The existence of the farfanes is thus in no way exceptional.