2021年10月19日 · The Thirty Years’ War was a conflict fought across parts of Europe from 1618 to 1648. Here, Matthew Gentile considers the important role that mercenaries played during that war. He considers the Swedish use of mercenaries, why people became mercenaries, and how they behaved during the war.

2019年12月26日 · The mercenary-armies of the Thirty Years War slowly but surely turned into standing armies (a thing that is attributed to absolutist rulers - if and how absolutism is "real" or "questionable" is a different debate, for the purpose of this answer absolutism refers to a time period between 1650-1750 that is characterized by certain ideas of ...

2015年8月27日 · Scottish mercenaries in the Thirty Years War. The seventeenth century witnessed important changes in the conditions under which men were engaged to fight in armed units.

There was a complicated involvement between Scotland and the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. Scotland and the Scots were heavily entangled in both the diplomatic and military events which centred on the Holy Roman Empire .

2024年1月18日 · The Thirty Years’ War was the longest war on German soil. It left behind an almost incomprehensible trail of suffering and destruction. Beginning as a dispute between the Catholic Church and the…

2015年3月25日 · Mercenaries by their very nature were not reliable and they held money as their master. Mercenaries swopping sides in the lead up to a battle after being offered more money was not uncommon. The economic plight of Sweden after 1632, saw large numbers of mercenaries desert Sweden for better paid employment elsewhere.

2024年12月19日 · During the Thirty Years’ War, many of the contending armies were mercenaries, many of whom could not collect their pay. This threw them on the countryside for their supplies, and thus began the “wolf-strategy” that typified this war. The armies of both sides plundered as they marched, leaving cities, towns, villages, and farms ravaged.

The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]

The armies of the Thirty Years War were armies of mercenaries. Men fought for money and sometimes changed sides several times in the process; obviously confession was of less importance. Over the course of the war, the mercenary armies moved from one theater of war to another; usually their wives and children moved along with them.

2015年3月9日 · It is primarily about the mercenaries of the Thirty Years War, but also includes Scottish merchants in Sweden and an essay on Robert Munro by Frans G. Bengtsson. The translation is by Patrick A. Hort.