Wonder Girl, disguised as a nurse, infiltrates the Mount Mary General Hospital in Los Angeles to interrogate one of the mercenaries who tried to kill Red Robin and Skitter in the previous issue.

He returns home posthaste, uncovers the real plot behind the charges, and escapes trial by gaining the Emperor's approval to enlist the Dendarii ( secretly and without the mercenaries themselves aware of it ) into the Imperial forces.

In a climactic final scene as Calvert fights a space battle above, the mercenaries valiantly sacrifice themselves defending the survivors from the hordes of the possessed until they are extracted by space plane.

Athenian manpower was correspondingly drastically reduced and even foreign mercenaries refused to hire themselves out to a city riddled with plague.

The Harris papyrus can be interpreted in two ways: either the captives were settled in Egypt and the rest of the Philistines / Sea Peoples carved out a territory for themselves in Canaan, or else it was Ramses himself who settled the Sea Peoples ( mainly Philistines ) in Canaan as mercenaries.

The mercenaries, known as the Ten Thousand, found themselves without leadership far from the sea, deep in hostile territory near the heart of Mesopotamia.

These seem to have been mercenaries, brigands or outlaws, who may have at one time led a settled life, but with bad-luck or due to the force of circumstances, contributed a rootless element of the population, prepared to hire themselves to whichever local mayor, king or princeling prepared to undertake their support.

* Following the death of Agathocles, some of his disbanded mercenaries seize Messana in northeast Sicily and set up a society, calling themselves Mamertines ( Sons of Mars ).

In the early stages the lowlands and cities may have had some organisation or " council " and the Bishop of London appears to have played a key role, but they were divided politically as former soldiers, mercenaries, nobles, officials and farmers declared themselves kings, fighting amongst each other and leaving Britain open to invasion.

Antigonus's Macedonian troops retreated, but his own body of Gallic mercenaries, who had charge of his elephants, stood firm until Pyrrhus's troops surrounded them, whereupon they surrendered both themselves and the elephants.

As well as preying off the clans, caterans acted as mercenaries for Lowland lairds pursuing disputes amongst themselves.

If it became obvious that a state was entirely dependent on mercenaries, the temptation was great for the mercenaries to take over the running of it themselves — this occurred on a number of occasions.

a commercial adviser for Sandline once told the BBC that the firm saw themselves differently from mercenaries, stating that they were an established entity with “ established sets of principles ” and that they employed professional people.

Dark Eldar are mainly depicted as a piratical race with no loyalty to anyone except themselves, though they are reportedly sometimes employed by various races as mercenaries.

Although yugoloths present themselves as simply greedy mercenaries, the members of the highest yugoloth castes view the entire course of the Blood War as their own to control and manipulate until they decide to end it, unify the Lower Planes, and turn their attention to the planes of Good.

The first historical mention of Entella is found in Diodorus, who tells us that in 404 BCE the Campanian mercenaries, who had been in the service of the Carthaginians during the war, having been admitted into the city on friendly terms, turned their arms against the inhabitants, put all the male citizens to the sword, and made themselves masters of the place, of which they retained possession for many years.

Any surviving Greek troops, whether regular Byzantine forces, local militia, or mercenaries had either to join the Ottoman army as janissaries, serve in the private army of a local Ottoman notable, or fend for themselves.

A force of mercenaries, about 20, 000 strong, armed themselves and marched towards Carthage, seizing the town of Tunis some 21 km from Carthage.

Collectively betrayed by their leader, the player's squad flees underground and ally themselves with the Red Faction as mercenaries.

Not only the mercenaries themselves were paid, but also their home cantons, and the Reisläuferei, while being heavily criticized already at that time as a heavy drain on the human resources of the confederation, became popular in particular among the young peasants from the rural cantons.

The only alternative was to replace knighthood as the core of military forces with mercenaries, as under a condottiere, but those often proved highly unreliable and expensive, as well as being known for changing sides for greater profit, or simply deserting and looting for themselves.

They distinguished themselves in the capture of the Banda Islands from the English and the defense of Batavia, until the practice of hiring Japanese mercenaries was prohibited by the Shogun in 1621.

After their victory, the mercenaries named themselves the Mamertines after the Oscan war-god Mamers.

Category: Ancient Greek mercenaries

An early recorded use of foreign auxiliaries dates back to Ancient Egypt, the thirteenth century BC, when Pharaoh Ramesses II used 11, 000 mercenaries during his battles.

Category: Ancient Greek mercenaries

Category: Ancient Greek mercenaries

** The Army of the Ten Thousand were a group of Ancient Greek mercenaries who marched against the Persian Shah Artaxerxes II.

Regardless, there is no doubt that the Medjay played an important role in Ancient Egypt, first as foreign mercenaries employed by the Egyptian army and later as a paramilitary police force that guarded royal palaces and tombs.

Category: Ancient Greek mercenaries

Category: Ancient Greek mercenaries

Category: Ancient Greek mercenaries

Instead, a flashback sequence reveals Stanley cowardly allows himself to be captured by Sub-Nebulae mercenaries and sold to the Divine Order, providing them with the codes to the defense system protecting the Reformed Planets ; as such, he is branded Arch-Traitor.

Posing as players and fans of a visiting rugby club, most of the 45 mercenaries had passed through customs, when an inspector discovered that one of them had brought in a prohibited fruit, prompting a search of the other bags.

The range of characters players can adopt is very diverse, ranging from hardwired mercenaries with psycholinked weapons and boosted reflexes, to Armani-wearing corporate mega-yuppies who make and break national economies with the stroke of a pen.

People can choose to become mercenaries for the 10 % experience bonus and fight for the faction that has less online players.

Also, professionalism was rejected, and players who played abroad were considered " mercenaries " and not capped.

To succeed, players will be required to train and equip their mercenaries with better weapons and tools.

The developers estimate that the remake will take players around 70 hours to complete and the mercenaries will be easier to train.

UAE had beaten Kenya in the final, and the Kenyan players and cricket board were very vocal in their anger at being defeated by what they and other observers described as a team of imported mercenaries.

In addition, this expansion introduced mercenaries and allowed fighting among players.