Mercenaries
Georg Von Frundsberg
While commanding the Landsknecht mercenaries, Frundsberg fought as a man of honour in the service of his emperor. LANDSKNECHT MERCENARY LEADER BORN 24 September 1473 DIED 20 August 1528 Georg von Frundsberg was a South German knight and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Imperial Habsburg dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire. Frundsberg was born to Ulrich von Frundsberg…
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Portugal and the Changing Art of War
GINETES PORTUGUESE NOBLES MUNICIPAL SPEARMEN ALMOGAVARES Portuguese kings needed more revenue by the late fourteenth century especially because of their escalating military costs. These cost increases were mainly a consequence of developments in the technology of warfare. Chain mail, long worn by knights, was being steadily replaced by more expensive…
Boko Haram
Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) against Boko Haram in the area bordering Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon; the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade in the eastern DRC is another case in point. Nigerian army soldiers patrol along a road in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria, on March 5, 2015. Nigeria’s government said that…
Swiss in Service
Swiss in French Service The Swiss connection to the French king that had begun in the fifteenth century grew even closer under Louis XIV; he employed them not only as regiments in the army, but also as his household guard. There were two units protecting the king, the Cent Suisses…
Medieval Mercenaries
The oft-quoted remark of Richard Fitz Neal in his preface to the Dialogus de Scaccario about the supreme importance of money in war has been shown by J. O. Prestwich to have been as much a commonplace in 1179 when he wrote it as it seems today. ‘Money appears necessary…
MERCENARIES
Battle of Halmyros, a battle between the lightly armed but battle-hardened Almogavars of the infamous Catalan Company and the French Knights of the Duchy of Athens. By Darren Tan Scots in Swedish Thirty Years’ War service. Swiss mercenaries and landsknechte engaged in a push of pike (engraving by Hans Holbein…
Battle of Saint-Quentin
1557 Battle of Saint Quentin. Spanish arquebusiers in street fighting in the suburbs of the town. The earliest chronogram found depicts the siege and battle of Saint Quentin in 1557. Saint-Quentin, Battle of 10 August 1557 English forces fighting with the armies of Philip II of Spain, husband and…