In the 16th century, the large zweihander was used by the elite German mercenaries known as doppelsoldners.

As early as 839, when Swedish emissaries are first known to have visited Byzantium, Scandinavians served as mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Empire.

At the Battle of Talas in 751, Qarluq mercenaries under the Chinese defected, helping the Arab armies of the Islamic Caliphate to defeat the Tang force under commander Go Seonji ( d. 756, also known as Gao Xianzhi, a general of Goguryeo descent ).

Created early in the war as a unit of adventurers and mercenaries under British command, they were well known for looting Boer property.

The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars ; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks.

The empire became a popular destination for many English nobles and soldiers as it would have been known that the Byzantines were in need of mercenaries.

The best known post-World-War-II example of this was on 28 June 1976 when, at the end of the Luanda Trial ' an Angolan court sentenced three Britons and an American to death, and nine other mercenaries to prison terms ranging from 16 to 30 years.

The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire is the best known formation made up of barbarian mercenaries ( see next section ).

A class of mercenaries known as the Gallowglass dominated warfare in Ireland and Scotland between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Cilicia Pedias (" flat Cilicia "— Greek: Κιλικία Πεδιάς ; Assyrian Kue ), to the east, included the rugged spurs of Taurus and a large coastal plain, with rich loamy soil, known to the Greeks such as Xenophon, who passed through with his 10, 000 Greek mercenaries, for its abundance ( euthemia ), filled with sesame and millet and olives and pasturage for the horses imported by Solomon.

The goddesses called the Alaisiagae are named on altar-stones from the same fort on Hadrian's Wall as being parallel with two Germanic goddesses: Celtic ‘ Boudihillia ’ is equated with Germanic ‘ Fimmilena ,’ and Celtic ‘ Beda ’ is equated with Germanic ‘ Friagabis .’ These parallel goddesses are taken to be Germanic not only because of clues in the inscriptions and the Germanic mercenaries at the wall at the time, but also because they both have an initial ‘ f -,’ a sound not known to have developed in Celtic at this time.

Hofer introduced nostalgia or mal du pays " homesickness " for the condition also known as mal du Suisse " Swiss illness " or Schweizerheimweh " Swiss homesickness ," because of its frequent occurrence in Swiss mercenaries who in the plains of lowlands of France or Italy were pining for their native mountain landscapes.

By this time in that region, there were two main groups of loosely organized armed outlaws: the jagunços, mercenaries who worked for whoever paid their price, usually land-owners who wanted to protect or expand their territorial limits and also deal with farm workers ; and the cangaceiros, " social bandits ", who had some level of support from the poorest population: the bandits sustained some beneficial behaviors such as acts of charity, buying of goods for higher prices and giving free parties (" bailes "), and the population provided shelter and information which helped them escape from police forces, known as volantes, sent by the government to stop them.

These recruited mercenaries were known as the " B Team ", and began flying strike missions on 1 June 1964.

These combatants are commonly known as mercenaries, though modern-day PMCs euphemistically prefer to refer to their staff as security contractors or private military contractors.

The Catalan Company of the East (, ), officially the Magnas Societas Catalanorum, sometimes called the Grand Company and widely known as the Catalan Company, was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in the early 14th-century.

During the waning days of the CD, it was known for its mercenaries specializing in infantry.

During the waning days of the CD, it was known for its mercenaries specializing in armored warfare.

During the late CD era, known for covert operations and espionage mercenaries.

On land, these wars were primarily fought by armies of mercenaries known as condottieri, bands of soldiers drawn from around Europe, but especially Germany and Switzerland, led largely by Italian captains.

They fought Gatecrasher's group of inter-dimensional mercenaries known as the Technet.

Elektra was involved in an incident with the Red Hulk, X-Force, a new villain called the Red She-Hulk and a few other well known mercenaries such as Deadpool and the Punisher.

This would have be worse if it was known he then entertained a proposal to raise 1, 500 mercenaries who would overthrow Haiti with officers from the United States Army and Navy.

Various mercenaries began looking for Tolliver's legacy, known only as the ultimate weapon.

When Xenophon and the Ten Thousand mercenaries were fighting their way out of Persia, the first Greek city they reached was Trebizond ( Xenophon, Anabasis, 5. 5. 10 ).

* In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries ( the " Ten Thousand ") in 401 BC to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.

Route of Cyrus the Younger, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand ( Greek ) | Ten Thousand mercenaries

Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.

Paul Kearney's 2008 novel The Ten Thousand is directly based on the historical events but transplants the action to a fictional fantasy world named Kuf, where ten thousand Macht mercenaries are hired to fight on the behalf of a prince trying to usurp the throne of the Assurian Empire.

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

), about the Army of the Ten Thousand – Greek mercenaries taking part in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II

The player assumes control of a group of mercenaries in a war between the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale and a coalition of persecuted races and religions.

The small group of mercenaries arrived in the Maldives smuggling their light arms in diving equipment, but did not carry out the mission because Gayoom had been tipped about their arrival and they found that they had been misinformed about the popularity of Gayoom.

The name of Mars Thingsus ( Thincsus ) is found in an inscription on an 3rd century altar from the Roman fort and settlement of Vercovicium at Housesteads in Northumberland, thought to have been erected by Frisian mercenaries stationed at Hadrian's Wall.

At this time, a number of mercenaries, arriving from several countries found employment in India.

The pike found extensive use with Landsknecht armies and Swiss mercenaries, who employed it as their main weapon and used it in pike square formations.

In the Luanda Trial, after " a regularly constituted court " found them guilty of being mercenaries, three Britons and an American were shot by a firing squad on July 10, 1976.

According to the 4th century writer Eumenius " the ships reached London, found survivors of the barbarian mercenaries plundering the city, and when these began to seek flight, landed and slew them in the street ".

They are also named as mercenaries in inscriptions found in ancient Egypt and Nubia, dated to the reigns of Psammetichus I and II.

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.

The mercenaries then claimed payment and Dinuzulu found himself confronted with demands he could not meet.

After meeting the Roman demands, a destitute Carthage now found itself in a quandary: it had employed numerous mercenaries in the First Punic War and now found it difficult to pay them.

Otherwise they are found serving as mercenaries in the Empire, especially Middenheim

But however powerful the Hamdanid chiefs were at home amongst their Arab brethren, and splendid their victories over the Greeks, they found it a different thing to rule at Baghdad, due to foreign mercenaries and the well-organised Turkish forces in the city.

After disabling communications and destroying the mercenary's munitions in their staging area, the team found out that the remaining mercenaries have ambushed and captured a patrol of U. S. Marines.

He was found by Jarlaxle of the Bregan Daerthe band of drow mercenaries and taken to Menzoberranzan.

Leading his confident army north, he found the Mamertines again at the Longanus River on the plain of Mylae where he easily defeated them, since the Mamertines were not accustomed to large pitched battles and had become reckless after beating Hiero's mercenaries.

Many mercenaries who were repatriated found their way back into Katanga via Rhodesia.

Many pastoralists of Northern Italy found better pay as mercenaries of the period, but when unemployed returned to their pastoral lifestyle.

Many of the exiles ( notably Owen Roe O ' Neill ) found service as mercenaries in the Catholic armies of Spain and France.

The type of mercenaries recruited or the type of treasure found are determined by random card draws.

After a few generations, the Phoenicians established next to the abandoned city a fortress town on 1. 5 hectares, in which were found the weapons and kitchen equipment of Greek mercenaries, as well as an extremely rare bowl, in which was prepared the color purple, the Phoenicians ' main export.

The earliest references to them are found in the texts of ancient historians such as Livy and Polybius who mention Cantabrian mercenaries in Carthaginian service fighting at the Battle of the Metaurus in 207 BC.

The city was of Siculian origin, and its foundation is related by Diodorus, who informs us that in 403 BCE the inhabitants of Herbita ( a Siculian city ), having concluded peace with Dionysius I of Syracuse, their ruler or chief magistrate Archonides determined to quit the city and found a new colony, which he settled partly with citizens of Herbita, and partly with mercenaries and other strangers who collected around him through enmity towards Dionysius.