# 1895 Min of Joseon by three mercenary killers allegedly hired by Japanese minister to Korea Miura Goro

Most of the Teutonic army, under the command of Fritz Raweneck and Kaspar Nostyc, were mercenary soldiers gathered from the nearby castles Mewe ( Gniew ), Stargard ( Starogard Gdański ), Nowe, Skarszewy and Kiszewy.

The terms were so heavy that negotiations failed and, in response, the Carthaginians hired Xanthippus, a Spartan mercenary, to reorganize the army.

They were often hired as mercenary soldiers, sometimes fighting on both sides in the great battles of the times.

The major impact of the war, in which mercenary armies were extensively used, was the devastation of entire regions scavenged bare by the foraging armies.

However, it is most likely that these were individual mercenary bands, not a Hunnish kingdom.

This intensified under John's rule, with many lesser nobles arriving from the continent to take up positions at court ; many were mercenary leaders from Poitou.

In the meantime, John began to recruit fresh mercenary forces from Poitou, although some were later sent back to avoid giving the impression that the king was escalating the conflict.

However, almost all high medieval armies in Europe were composed of a great deal of paid core troops, and there was a large mercenary market in Europe from at least the early 12th century.

During the uprising in the Punic mainland, the mercenary troops in Corsica and Sardinia toppled Punic rule and briefly established their own, but were expelled by a native uprising.

By then all Hellenistic kingdoms and the Greek city-states were in decline, exhausted from endless civil wars and relying on mercenary troops.

Norsemen, Flemish spearmen, Frankish knights, Moorish mounted archers and Berber light cavalry were the main types of mercenary available and used in the conflict.

While the regiments within each army were not strictly mercenary, in that they were not guns for hire that changed sides from battle to battle, the individual soldiers that made up the regiments often were.

Sparta achieved a series of land victories, but many of her ships were destroyed at the battle of Cnidus by a Greek-Phoenician mercenary fleet that Persia had provided to Athens.

His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns ; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.

Studies mostly cite the causes of death due to starvation or as caused ( ultimately by the lack-of-food induced ) weakening of resistance to endemic diseases which repeatedly reached epidemic proportions amongst the general Central European population — the German states were the battle ground and staging areas for the largest mercenary armies theretofore, and the armies foraged amongst the many provinces stealing the food of those people forced onto the roads as refugees, or still on the lands, regardless of their faith and allegiances.

Belisarius's mercenary cavalry was routed by the Vandals, and even though Gelimer was outnumbered, his men were performing well in the fighting.

However, the mercenary shinobi were unwilling to take commands.

She then used this money plus an earlier loan from Charles to raise a mercenary army, scouring Brabant for men, which were added to a small force of Hainaut troops.

Later additions were: a naive weapons expert ( Dayna ), a mercenary ( Tarrant ), a gunslinger ( Soolin ) and an obsequious computer ( Slave ).

Three more were executed: American Daniel Gearhart was sentenced to death for advertising himself as a mercenary in an American newspaper ; Andrew McKenzie and Costas Georgiou ( the self styled " Colonel Callan "), who had both served in the British army, were sentenced to death for murder.

Contingents of mercenary Flemish soldiers were to form significant forces in England throughout the time of the Norman and early Plantagenet dynasties ( 11th and 12th centuries ).

During the later Middle Ages, Free Companies ( or Free Lances ) were formed, consisting of companies of mercenary troops.

"( Charlemagne's ) army was enlisted to help the Muslim governors of Barcelona and Zaragoza against the Umayyad ( emir ) in Cordoba ..." Essentially Charlemagne was being hired as a mercenary, even though he likely had other plans of acquiring the area for his own empire.

They hired the mercenary, King Pyrrhus of Epirus, in neighboring Greece to fight the Romans on their behalf.

During the American Revolution, King George III of England, hired German mercenary soldiers from some of the German principalities to supplement his Royal Army.

A number, known as the Levellers complained " We were not a mere mercenary army hired to serve any arbitrary power of a state, but called forth … to the defence of the people's just right and liberties ".

Some historians, such as Nathaniel Philbrick, refer to Standish as a " mercenary ," suggesting that he was a hired soldier of fortune seeking opportunity in Holland.

They attempted to " borrow " the mercenary Scotch Brigade of the Dutch States Army for use in the Americas, in a similar manner to the Hessian and Brunswicker contingents they hired and deployed.

Caesar stalled the negotiations while his troops fortified their positions behind the river with a sixteen foot high rampart and a parallel trench lined with ballistas ; his legionaries were backed by mercenary archers and slingers and Caesar had also hired and / or conscripted a contingent of Gallic horseman from the Remi.

The game begins with a briefing between a bald anonymous executive ( in later games named Dravis ) of the Post Terran Minerals Corporation ( PTMC ) and the player, a " Material Defender " ( revealed as MD1032 in the briefings, also using the callsign " Vertigo-1 ") hired on a mercenary basis to eliminate the threat of an alien computer virus infecting the robots used for off-world mining operations.

The two competing factions had hired mercenary soldiers, and when there was no one left to pay them, many of them took up robbery and other forms of violence as a profession.

Los Zetas, as they are known, served as the hired private mercenary army of the Gulf Cartel.

Latrocinium ( from Latin latro, ultimately from Greek latron, " pay " hire ) which meant primarily a mercenary, or hired soldier, had the same meaning as miles.

In Hovertank 3D, the player controls Brick Sledge, a mercenary hired by an unknown organization ( referred to by the game as the " UFA ") to rescue people from cities under the threat of nuclear attack ( largely political activists ), both by the government and by large corporations.

He works as a mercenary for both the rebels and the High Evolutionary and is hired by the latter to hunt and kill, and / or capture Spider-Man.

In the show's third season ( 2000 – 2001 ), Phoebe develops the active power of Levitation and enters a relationship with Cole Turner ( Julian McMahon ), who is actually the demon mercenary Belthazor that has been hired to kill The Charmed Ones.

Xanthippus ( Gr. ) was a Greek ( possibly Spartan ) mercenary general hired by the Carthaginians to aid in their war against the Romans during the First Punic War.

Tolliver hired the mercenary Deadpool and his girlfriend Copycat to kidnap Domino.

In addition to his failed campaign in Wales, Henry's mercenary Norse navy, which he had hired to harass the Welsh coast, turned out to be too few for use, and were disbanded without engagement.

: An American munitions expert, frequently hired by the British Library for mercenary work.

Philopoemen then trained the new army how to fight with the new weapons and tactics and how to co-ordinate them with a new mercenary corps that was hired.

In that year he hired the services of a band of Vikings with which to fight Robert the Strong, who himself had hired mercenary Vikings to help him.