The Swiss mercenaries were a powerful infantry force constituted by professional soldiers originating from the cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. They...

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...

Swiss Guards (French: Gardes Suisses; German: Schweizergarde; Italian: Guardie Svizzere) are Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European...

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...

Holy Roman Empire in 1499, Switzerland has been involved in military operations dating back to the hiring of Swiss mercenaries by foreign nations, including...

The Swiss dagger (Schweizerdolch) is a distinctive type of dagger used in Switzerland and by Swiss mercenaries during the 16th century. It develops from...

military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political interests. Beginning in the 20th century, mercenaries have increasingly...

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...

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...

Francis I, newly crowned King of France, against the Old Swiss Confederacy, whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry...

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...

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...

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...

attempting to strike at Colonna's lines of communication. When the Swiss mercenaries in French service did not receive their pay, however, they demanded...

Confederation (Switzerland) regardless of ethno-cultural background or people of self-identified Swiss ancestry. The number of Swiss nationals has grown...

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...

as the Swiss forces moved into the attack. Additionally, after the battle, the Swiss executed the hundreds of German Landsknecht mercenaries they had...

particularly well known as the primary weapon of Spanish tercios, Swiss mercenary, German Landsknecht units and French sans-culottes. A similar weapon...

Washington D.C. Nicholas Switzer House A person from Switzerland Specifically, one of the Swiss mercenaries Switzer (surname) Switzer Unlimited, Canadian talk...

conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include: List of battles involving the Old Swiss Confederacy Military...

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...

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...

Swiss mercenaries, enabled the French to move through Lombardy with little resistance; Trémoille, having seized Milan, besieged the remaining Swiss in...

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...

the gendarmes and early cuirassiers, but the infantry troops of the Swiss mercenaries and the Landsknechts also took to wearing lighter suits of "three...

a Swiss an almost irrepressible yearning for home", repeating 18th century accounts the mal du Suisse or nostalgia diagnosed in Swiss mercenaries. Singing...

Serge. Mercenaries of the Ancient World. Constable, 1997.[ISBN missing] Medieval France, John, ed. "Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity...

reorganizing the canton's defences. In early 1798, France invaded Switzerland and replaced the Old Swiss Confederacy with the Helvetic Republic, a French client...

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...

000 and 80,000 men, including significant numbers of Bavarian and Swiss mercenaries, as well as the Irish Brigade. Villars himself commanded the left...