Timeline for How common are historical instances of mercenary armies reversing and attacking their employing country?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
28 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2023 at 0:39 | comment | added | Jos | @CedricMartens The Mametines did that on Sicily. Before that, the mercenaries hired by Carthage did that, as I briefly mentioned. Often mercenaries are not employed in the employers homeland. They are hired to fight elsewhere. | |
| Jun 30, 2023 at 23:44 | comment | added | Jos | @OscarBravo Out of sheer curiosity: would you be that band member? | |
| Jun 30, 2023 at 19:33 | comment | added | Cedric Martens | While the answer provides excellent background, I wish you had more examples where mercenaries reversed and attacked the employing country, especially if the title is that it was not unusual | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 16:52 | comment | added | jeffronicus | I'm pretty sure Machiavelli had a few words to say about relying on mercenaries, too. | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 13:13 | vote | accept | Ray Butterworth | ||
| Jun 29, 2023 at 0:12 | comment | added | Jos | @OscarBravo When someone hasn't the money to pay for something. He wants it, but can't have it. Your example is quite right. We'd be using 'Geen geld, geen Zwitsers!' as reply. | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 0:07 | comment | added | Jos | @mustermax corrected | |
| Jun 29, 2023 at 0:07 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 1 character in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 19:35 | comment | added | JMS | Ceasar's army which returned from Gaul and ended the Republic of Rome was a Mercenary Army not paid by the people of Rome but by bootie from their conquests. It's very common, good job. | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 13:37 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | @Jos: About the proverb; under what circumstances would you use it? Like if you were in a band and you'd been booked to play a gig but the pub-owner started whining about the price? | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 13:26 | comment | added | FluidCode | "The famous march of the ten thousand was a mercenary army trying to get home after getting fired without payment." That is not correct. They were not fired. Cyrus who hired them and put together the entire army was killed in battle and the army disbanded. The Greek corps held together to help each other in a hostile land. | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 13:08 | comment | added | Jon Custer | @Jan - as an American who learned Dutch in the 90's, that was a common enough proverb that I encountered it. | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 6:35 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 137 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 6:23 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 2 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 6:05 | comment | added | Jos | @Jan fair enough, edited. | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 6:05 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 94 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 6:01 | comment | added | Jan | I am German and I have never heard that "Kein Geld, keine Schweizer" proverb. That does not mean it does not exist (might be a regional thing), but it would need a better source, not just some random website. | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 5:59 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 1 character in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 3:23 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 14 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 3:01 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 417 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 2:52 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 11 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 2:30 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 2 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 2:25 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 2 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 2:19 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 195 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 2:13 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 195 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 2:06 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 145 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 1:57 | history | edited | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 4 characters in body
|
| Jun 28, 2023 at 1:52 | history | answered | Jos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |