are German Mercenaries who helped the British fight in the American Revolution. Research has shown that if the British didn’t have their help‚ the war might have ended a lot sooner. Hessians‚ what were they‚ what were they used for‚ and what happened to them. Hessians were German soldiers from Hesse-Cassel. At the start of the war‚ the British were short of soldiers to fight. “Recruiting in Britain failed to raise the numbers needed so the British decided to hire foreign mercenaries‚ mainly from
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The Babylonians was an ancient civilization founded in Mesopotamia‚ before Christ was even born. The Babylonians under one of their most famous king‚ King Hammurabi‚ wrote one of the earliest code of law recorded. The code of law was written set of laws that applied to everyone under the government including the King. The code gave the people a sense of justice and an understanding of what actions were allowed in their country. Anthropologists can use Hammurabi code to understand the past and get
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The Thirty Years War was a war fought by mercenaries that were typically not related or unloyalw to the nation they represented. These mercenaries were costly and not only in economical ways but in social ways as the mercenaries would ravage through towns burning down crops and mowing down peasants. The mercenaries saw the results of the First Phase and pressured the emperor to commission and support their troops. Ironically one
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A Brief History of Public and Private Policing Relationships Since the creation of our nation‚ private and public policing have been closely intertwined. Unfortunately‚ it has not always been a successful partnership. We will look at the creation of the public police force and how many stemmed from private entities. We will then look at some examples in recent history of the public and private sector uniting and producing results. Finally‚ we’ll examine how the rapidly evolving modern world
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began to use natural frontiers like the Rhine and Danube Rivers. The Romans made the mistake of hiring Germanic mercenaries‚ the mercenaries turned against Rome and began to favor the Germanic tribes over the people paying them. The legionnaires began to be so concerned with salaries and who was in control of the throne they lost focus on the job. With the help of the Germanic mercenaries‚ the Germanic tribes were able to invade Rome. The Germanic people destroyed aqueducts. Therefore stopping the
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Moore examine the role and the importance of war to maintain a strong and successful society. More (via Hythloday) believes that war should be the last option and is not needed in a safe and happy government without the help of auxiliaries and mercenaries while on the other hand‚ Machiavelli believes that war plays a crucial war in a prosperous and thriving society using other troops and people to avoid war. Machiavelle uses his belief that war is the way to have a strong successful government to
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I NTRODUCTION The Congo Crisis (1960–1966) was a period of turmoil in the First Republic of the Congo that began with national independence from Belgium and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu. At various points it had the characteristics of anti-colonial struggle‚ a secessionist war with the province of Katanga‚ a United Nations peacekeeping operation‚ and a Cold War proxy battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Crisis caused the death of some 100‚000 people. It
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Jane Austen was a literary phenomenon due to her interesting portrayals of families of various classes‚ her comical renditions of the mercenary of people in the 18th century‚ and her
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First and foremost‚ Deadpool is a mercenary in the truest sense of the word‚ he’ll take money from anybody for anything…or at least he used to. In his earliest renditions‚ before he obtained his own comic‚ he was shown as a villain out to kill the mutant Cable for a mysterious benefactor named Mr. Tolliver (The New Mutants #98‚ 1990). Initially‚ the character is portrayed as an intelligent and sarcastic with a limited set of morals in that he doesn’t kill unnecessarily‚ but doesn’t look too closely
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Machiavelli’s Political Ideas and Influence By: Reed Rosencrans The Renaissance took place in Italy during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. The Renaissance was a “rebirth” and revival of political and social ideas from the Ancient Greek and Roman eras. One social ideal of the Renaissance was Humanism. Humanism was a Renaissance idea that emphasis human potential and ability. A political idea from the Renaissance was political realism. Political realism is when a ruler accomplishes
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