It is known that mercenaries have been hired to fight in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Many of these were ex-Eastern Bloc soldiers who had no employment opportunities after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mercenary - Private military company PMC. Private military companies are companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures for a military force. Their contractors are civil ...

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Mercenary - Mercenaries in the classic era. Many Greek mercenaries fought for the Persian Empire during the early classic era. For example: Xerxes I, king of Persia, who invaded Greece in 484 BC employed Greek mercenaries. The best remembered is Demaratus, for his warning to Xerxes not to underestimate the Spartans before the Battle of Thermopylae. In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries (the "Ten Thousand") in 401 BC to seize t ...

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The Cobra Organization (officially called Cobra Command) is the fictional nemesis of the G.I. Joe team, and part of a line of action figures sold by Hasbro, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Though the G.I. Joe toys had been produced since the 1960s, Cobra was introduced when the G.I. Joe line was relaunched in the early 1980s. This relaunch was accompanied by a Marvel comic, written by Larry Hama, and an animated television series for children. Comic writer Josh Blaylock once compared them to the Legion of Doom. It must be stres ...

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A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment (such as a uniform and weapon) to defend that country or its interests. In most countries, the term soldier is limited to such people who serve in the land branch of the armed services (usually known as the army). Armies are strictly hierarchical societies, and within them, groups of soldiers are usu ...

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Xenophon (In Greek Ξενοφών, c. 427-355 BC) was a soldier, mercenary and Athenian student of Socrates and is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. While a young man, Xenophon participated in the expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older brother, the emperor Artaxerxes II of Persia, in 401 BC. In this effort, Cyrus used many Greek mercenaries left unemployed by the cessation of the Peloponnesian War. Cyrus fought Artaxerxes at Cunaxa: the Greeks ...

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The Battle of Cunaxa was fought in 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his elder brother Arsaces, who had seized the Persian throne as Artaxerxes II in 404 BC. Cyrus gathered an army of Greek mercenaries under the Spartan general Clearchus, and met Artaxerxes at Cunaxa on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 70 kilometres North of Babylon. The tactical outcome of the battle is disputed but as Cyrus die ...

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Tyr Anasazi out of Victoria by Barbarossa is a Nietzschean character in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, played by actor Keith Hamilton Cobb. He is the last known surviving member of Kodiak Pride. After his pride was betrayed by its allies, Tyr was captured by slavers and sold to work in diamond mines. One day the mines caved in and he was buried 200 metres underground, but he escaped. He became a mercenary and was secretly hired by a Nightsider, Gerentex to secure the presumably lost High Guard warship Androme ...

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Clearchus, the son of Rhamphias, was a Spartan general and mercenary. Born about the middle of the 5th century BC, Clearchus was sent with a fleet to the Hellespont in 411 and became governor of Byzantium, of which town he was proxenus. His severity, however, made him unpopular, and in his absence the gates were opened to the Athenian besieging army under Alcibiades (409). Subsequently appointed by the ephors to settle the political dissensions then rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring Gr ...

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC - 230s BC - 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC Years: 243 BC 242 BC 241 BC 240 BC 239 BC - 238 BC - 237 BC 236 BC 235 BC 234 BC 233 BC Events Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus assaults Sardinia upon a mutiny of Carthaginian mercenaries on the island, and makes it into a Roman province. In the Battle of Utica, the loyal Carthaginian troops of Hamilcar Barca defeat rebellious mercenaries. Parthia breaks away from the Seleucid Empire

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1340 - Events. Europe has about 74 million inhabitants. January 26 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France June 24 - The Battle of Sluys is fought between the naval fleets of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France. The former was under the command of Edward III of England and the later under those of admiral Hue Quiéret and treasurer Nicholas Béhuchet assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys serving under Egidio Bocanegra. The battle ends with the almost complete des ...

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Bagoas (in Old Persian Bagoi; died 336 BC) was an eunuch who became the confidential minister of Artaxerxes III. He threw in his lot with the Rhodian condottiere Mentor, and with his help succeeded in subjecting Egypt again to the Persian empire (probably 342 BC). Mentor became general of the maritime provinces, suppressed the rebels, and sent Greek mercenaries to the king, while Bagoas administered the upper satrapies ...

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The Varangians (Russian: Variags, Варяги) were Scandinavians who travelled eastwards, mainly from Jutland and Sweden. Promoting trade, piracy and mercenary militarism, they roamed the river systems and portages of what later became Russia, reaching the Caspian Sea and Constantinople. Their name came from Old Norse Væringjar, which may have come from the Old Norse plural noun várar = "pledge, troth". The East Slavs and the Byzantines, however, did not distinguish Scandinavians from other Germa ...

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In the Battle of Gaugamela (IPA: /ˌgɔgəˈmilə/) in 331 BC Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated Darius III of Persia. The battle is also inaccurately called the Battle of Arbela. Battle of Gaugamela - Combatants. Macedonians and Greeks under Alexander, 7,250 cavalry and 40,000 infantry. (According to Arrian) Persians under Darius, with maybe 35,000 mostly heavy cavalry, 200,000 infantry (including some 10,000 Greek mercenari ...

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An assegai or assagai (originally Berber zaġāya "spear", from Old French azagaie < Old Spanish azagaya < Arabic az-zaġāyah) is a weapon for throwing or hurling, usually a light spear or javelin made of wood and pointed with iron. It was exported to the Iberian peninsula and was used up through the gunpowder period; for example, the 14th century Catalan Christian foot mercenaries called the Almogàvers wielded this weapon to great eff ...

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An arm ring is a band of metal, usually a precious metal, worn as an ornament around the bicep of the upper arm. It was a common piece of jewelry worn by men in ancient times, and often the meaning of the word ring in bronze age heroic literature, when the text refers to mens jewelry. It seems likely that arm rings served the mercenaries who wore them as a form of currency that was conveniently kept on their person. Although similar, it is a different piece of jewelry from a bracelet or bangle, since it mus ...

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1217 - Events. April 9 - Peter of Courtenay crowned emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople at Rome, by Pope Honorius III May 20 - First Barons' War, royalist victory at Lincoln. August 24 - First Barons' War, Battle of Sandwich between English and French soldiers in the English Channel - mercenary Eustace the Monk working for the French side, is captured and beheaded September 11 - Treaty of Lambeth ends First Barons' War. Kingdom of Serbia founded Fifth C ...

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Anabasis is the most famous work of the Greek writer Xenophon. The journey it narrates is his best known accomplishment. Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Though Cyrus' army was victorious in a battle at Cunaxa in Babylon, Cyrus himself was killed in battle and the expedition rendered moot. Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and most of the other Greek ...

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334 BC - Events. Alexander the Great crosses the Hellespont, invading Persia. Battle of the Granicus: Alexander the Great defeats the Persian army in Western Asia Minor. He follows this by taking Sardis, the Persian center in western Asia Minor, and liberating Miletus, the principal Ionian city. Alexander besieges Halicarnassus, defended for the Persians by the Greek mercenary captain Memnon of Rhodes. He captures the city, but the Persian forces are able to make their escape ...

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Like piracy, the mercenary ethos resonates with idealized adventure, mystery and danger. Examples of this are: The novel Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth and the movie (1981) with the same name, which go into some detail about an actual if fictionalized mercenary operation in Africa in the 1960s. The novel The Wild Geese by Daniel Carney and the movie (1978) with the same name. The plot is that a global British financial syndicate seeks to rescue the deposed leader of a central African ...

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