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    The Swiss mercenaries were a powerful infantry force constituted by professional soldiers originating from the cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. They...
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    Swiss Guards (French: Gardes Suisses; German: Schweizergarde; Italian: Guardie Svizzere) are Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European...
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    The Pontifical Swiss Guard, also known as the Papal Swiss Guard or simply Swiss Guard, is an armed force and honour guard unit maintained by the Holy See...
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  • The Helvetic Mercenaries are an American football team based in Switzerland that plays in the European League of Football (ELF). On 4 April 2024, the owners...
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    Holy Roman Empire in 1499, Switzerland has been involved in military operations dating back to the hiring of Swiss mercenaries by foreign nations, including...
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    Nostalgia (redirect from Swiss illness)
    known as mal du Suisse "Swiss illness", because of its frequent occurrence in Swiss mercenaries who in the plains of Switzerland were pining for their landscapes...
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    military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests. Beginning in the 20th century, mercenaries have increasingly...
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    The Swiss dagger (Schweizerdolch) is a distinctive type of dagger used in Switzerland and by Swiss mercenaries during the 16th century. It develops from...
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    Battle of Marignano (category Battles involving Switzerland)
    Francis I, newly crowned King of France, against the Old Swiss Confederacy, whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry...
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    marked the beginning of the rise of Swiss mercenaries on the battlefields of Europe. In the Burgundian Wars, the Swiss soldiers had gained a reputation of...
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  • d'Orleans landed with 1,000 Swiss mercenary infantry which was later reinforced overland by 2,000 more Swiss mercenaries and a contingent of Genoese-Milanese...
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    Cent-Suisses (category Swiss mercenaries)
    The Cent-Suisses ("Hundred Swiss" in French) were an elite infantry company of Swiss mercenaries that served the French kings from 1471 to 1792 and from...
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    attempting to strike at Colonna's lines of communication. When the Swiss mercenaries in French service did not receive their pay, however, they demanded...
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    Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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    guard. It was used as a type of side arm in the Old Swiss Confederacy and especially by Swiss mercenaries, from the first half of the 15th century until the...
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    mostly because all major powers in Europe depended on Swiss mercenaries, and would not let Switzerland fall into the hands of one of their rivals. Politically...
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  • conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include: List of battles involving the Old Swiss Confederacy Military...
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    Confederation (Switzerland) regardless of ethno-cultural background or people of self-identified Swiss ancestry. The number of Swiss nationals has grown...
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    particularly well known as the primary weapon of Spanish tercios, Swiss mercenary, German Landsknecht units and French sans-culottes. A similar weapon...
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    partly because all major powers in Europe depended on Swiss mercenaries and would not let Switzerland fall into the hands of one of their rivals. The Three...
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  • Serge. Mercenaries of the Ancient World. Constable, 1997.[ISBN missing] Medieval France, John, ed. "Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity...
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    the gendarmes and early cuirassiers, but the infantry troops of the Swiss mercenaries and the Landsknechts also took to wearing lighter suits of "three...
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    Karl Ludwig von Erlach (category Swiss mercenaries)
    1746 – 5 March 1798) was a Swiss military officer who commanded the Swiss Army during the French invasion of Switzerland in 1798. Erlach was born in...
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  • Ranz des Vaches (category Swiss folk songs)
    a Swiss an almost irrepressible yearning for home", repeating 18th century accounts the mal du Suisse or nostalgia diagnosed in Swiss mercenaries. Singing...
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    Swiss mercenaries, enabled the French to move through Lombardy with little resistance; Trémoille, having seized Milan, besieged the remaining Swiss in...
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  • Roman Empire  England Swiss mercenaries 1513–1516:  Papal States Spain  Holy Roman Empire  England Duchy of Milan Swiss mercenaries French and Venetian...
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    Battle of Novara (1513) (category Battles involving Switzerland)
    as the Swiss forces moved into the attack. Additionally, after the battle, the Swiss executed the hundreds of German Landsknecht mercenaries they had...
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    Schweizerkrieg ("Swiss War") in Germany and Engadiner Krieg ("War of the Engadin" in Austria) was the last major armed conflict between the Old Swiss Confederacy...
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    the city Charles V now gathered a force of 14,000 German landsknecht mercenaries and 6,000 Spanish tercio soldiers led by Georg Frundsberg and Charles...
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    the city, consisting of French soldiers, 3,000 Swiss mercenaries and Milanese contingents. The Swiss attacked the Neapolitans but most of the fighting...
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