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Hace 1 día · A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.
Hace 1 día · The Wagner Group is a Russian mercenary group that has conducted military operations around the world on behalf of the Russian government. Though its origins are murky, the most credible account of the group’s creation traces it back to 2013. Since then, it has operated in Syria, multiple countries in Africa, and Ukraine.
Hace 1 día · Its troops are outnumbered and exhausted, ... Early on in the full-scale war, private Russian mercenary group Wagner recruited tens of thousands of Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine, ...
Hace 4 días · Xenophon’s Anabasis is the story of the march (401–400 bce) of 10,000 Greek mercenary soldiers from near Babylon to the Black Sea. Alexander the Great (reigned 336–323 bce ) conquered the Middle East and marched to India with a professional army of Macedonians, Greeks, and impressed allies.
Hace 21 horas · Mourners and soldiers on Saturday laid flowers at a new statue of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a pro-Kremlin mercenary who staged a mutiny and died in a plane crash, at his grave in Saint Petersburg.
14 de may. de 2024 · A mercenary, sometimes known as a soldier of fortune, is an individual who takes part in military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests.
Hace 5 días · The Mercenary, or Truceless, War began in 241 BC as a dispute over the payment of wages owed to 20,000 foreign soldiers who had fought for Carthage on Sicily during the First Punic War. This erupted into full-scale mutiny under the leadership of Spendius and Matho ; 70,000 Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependant territories ...
