Foreign Mercenaries, Revolutionary War, and Citizen-Soldiers in the Late Eighteenth Centuryhttp://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=0729-2473&volume=2&issue=2&spage=41doi:10.1179/106980484790303468ScottSamuel F.War & Society
M23 made an earlier play for power over a decade ago under a Rwandan Tutsi, General Bosco “The Terminator” Ntaganda (jailed for 30 years by the International Criminal Court in 2019 for war crimes and crimes against humanity). M23 took the Nord-Kivu capital of Goma, but were defeated in...
Mercenaries have played an important role in warfare throughout most of Western history. From the Teutonic tribesmen who served in Roman legions to the Hessian and Hanoverian soldiers who fought under the British flag in the American Revolutionary War, mercenariesTaulbee, James L...
for the many with an interest in state-formation and the not-so-many interested in the development of the interstate-system or, as some of us prefer to call it, international society. The common factor in the discussion of the two processes is the question of the legitimate uses of armed...
The formation of the Flying Tigers When these Americans arrived in China in 1941, the country was very different from the China we know today. Leader Chiang Kai-shek, a revolutionary who split with the Communist Party, was able to loosely unite the country’s warlords under a central governme...
Pre-war electronics were almost all broken, and solder to fix them to work there was precious since most of the pre-war stocks were tin-lead based. The film projector they had was irreplaceable because of this. Who safeguarded you in your younger days? The ratskeller staff stayed to run ...
American revolutionary warspeech actsparliamentary debatesThis article will explore the differing attitudes among British parliamentarians towards the use of German soldiers in 1756 and 1776. Utilising speech act theory, it will be shown that German soldiers were constructed as mercenaries in 1776 because...