Interestingly, mercenaries fighting on behalf of the newly installed pro-western regime, included Cuban exiles using the very-same Swiftclass patrol boats Monty and Gitana used previously on attacks against Cuba and transported by plane (dismantled) under CIA direction. The first clashes occurred in 1965 on Tanganika Lake, when CIA-backed white mercenaries engaged against Congolese rebels backed by Cuban advisors led by the notorious revolutionary Che Guevara. In the resulting battle the Catalans routed the Duke of Athens forces, killed the Duke and seized control of the Duchy of Athens.The following page regroup together a number of incidents and clashes occurred into sub-equatorial Africa. They would serve the Duke well, until he unwisely refused to pay them and attempted to drive them out of his territory. This proved to be a mistake, as the remnants of the company repulsed Byzantine assaults and proceeded to lay waste to imperial territory.Įventually they took service with the Latin Duchy of Athens.
The Byzantine Emperor, understandably perturbed by de Flor's actions, had him killed. Roger de Flor and his men pillaged the territory they recaptured from the Ottomans, and de Flor himself allegedly had designs on carving out his own kingdom in Anatolia. The Catalan Company fought with some success against the Ottomans, but proved unruly. One of these mercenaries, Roger de Flor, recruited these men and took on service with the Byzantine Empire. The Peace of Caltabellota in 1302 ended the conflict between the House of Barcelona and the House of Valois over the Kingdom of Sicily and left numerous mercenaries out of work. There were several cohorts of "Rhaetian Gaesati" serving in the Imperial Roman Army. Gaesatae are not mentioned fighting the Romans again, but inscriptions attest to Celtic units in the Roman auxilia bearing their name. There is no indication that the Gaesatae fought naked at Clastidium. The leader of this warband, Viridomaros, called himself "the Son of the Rhine" and challenged the Roman general to single combat. In 222 BC a group of Gaesatae, presumably the same ones defeated three years before, were destroyed by a Roman army at Clastidium. Nonetheless they were defeated Concolitanos was captured and his colleague Aneroestes committed suicide to avoid the same embarassing fate. They put up a hell of a fight, killing one of the Roman generals and taking his head as a trophy. The Gaesatae were noted for fighting naked, carrying only their shields, spears, and swords, at this battle. They called themselves the "Gaesatae", or "the Spearmen".Īt the Battle of Telamon in 225 BC, the Gaesatae, Boii, and Insubres were surrounded and defeated by two Roman armies. This group numbered in the thousands, and was led by the chieftains Aneroestes and Concolitanos.
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The Insubres and Boii hired a band of professional warriors from northern Gaul (modern France) to help them fight the Romans. In particular they were focusing on two belligerent Gaulish tribes, the Insubres and the Boii, who had settled in Italy around the same time that Brennus and his Senones famously sacked Rome (390 BC). In the 220s BC, the Roman Republic was pursuing a war of expansion into northern Italy - then known as Gallia Cisalpina, "Gaul on our side of the Alps". What are some famous (or infamous) companies or bands of mercenaries throughout human history? Name units of condotierre from any period in history, ancient to modern.
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