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The era’s Celtic warriors were famous for the quality of their weapons, their courage and ferocity in battle, their frightful battle cries, and their terrifying, butt-naked, headlong charges. That reputation made them highly sought after as mercenaries.
24 de jun. de 2014 · 1. The Ten Thousand. As chronicled in the historian Xenophon’s “Anabasis,” the “Ten Thousand” were a motley assortment of Greek warriors contracted by Cyrus the Younger to help oust his...
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.
15 de jul. de 2020 · Looks are truly deceiving because the men who make the cut to fill the ranks of the world's most famous mercenary units are ones few would want to face in a fight. These are the Gurkhas and they live by the motto, “better to die than be a coward.”
Swiss mercenaries ( German: Reisläufer) were valued throughout the kingdoms and states of medieval Europe for the power of their determined mass attack in deep columns with the spear, the pike, and halberd. [1]
Citations. References. External links. Landsknechte, etching by Daniel Hopfer, c. 1530. The Landsknechte (singular: Landsknecht, pronounced [ˈlantsknɛçt] ), also rendered as Landsknechts or Lansquenets, were German mercenaries used in pike and shot formations during the early modern period.
21 de abr. de 2018 · 9 The Wild Geese. Photo credit: A. Valdés Sánchez. The so-called “Wild Geese” of the 17th and 18th centuries are in many ways the direct heirs of the ancient Celtic mercenaries of the Mediterranean.
