One Million Mercernaries
The white mercenaries who attracted the world's attention in the Congo during the early 1960s were never more than a few hundred in number. In contrast, no fewer than a million Swiss troops served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe during the preceding 500 years. Swiss mercenaries form a significant strand in the rope of European military history, and this book draws on many French and German-language sources to describe how the Swiss emerged from the isolated valleys of the Alps with a new method of warfare. Their massed columns of pike-carrying infantry were the first foot-soldiers since Roman times who could hold their own against the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78383-758-8
- EAN: 9781783837588
- Produktnummer: 22582770
- Verlag: Pen and Sword
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 26'604 KB
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