"Meet the Landsknechts – Wild Facts About the Most...." Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Nov 2016 12:10 p.m. PST |
… Murderous Mercenaries of the Renaissance. "DURING THE 16th Century the most feared soldiers on Europe's battlefields were the landsknechts. These German mercenaries had such a reputation for unprincipled, ruthless violence one chronicler remarked that the devil refused to let landsknechts into hell because he was so afraid of them. This infamy was not undeserved as it was not unknown for entire regiments of landsknechts to swap sides in the middle of a battle if they were offered more money or to desert en masse when there was no more gold to pay them. So who were these flamboyant soldiers-of-fortune who terrorized Christendom for more than a century?.."
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| Jcfrog | 05 Nov 2016 1:25 p.m. PST |
Very good.
Any one read one novel from the chap? |
Puster  | 06 Nov 2016 5:16 a.m. PST |
> "it was not unknown for entire regiments of landsknechts to swap sides in the middle of a battle" Any incident, please… |
| Tango01 | 06 Nov 2016 2:40 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)
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