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unusual facts about The Mercenary


The Mercenary

El Mercenario, also known as The Mercenary, a Spanish comic series


Nika riots

The novel The Mercenary (1977) by Jerry Pournelle is inspired by the riots, recreating the events in the setting of a future colonial world.

Viva Cangaceiro

The movie received mixed reviews and is generally considered a minor variant of the similar movies Tomas Milian has starred in for Sergio Sollima (Face to Face and Run, Man, Run!), Sergio Corbucci (The Mercenary and Compañeros) and Giulio Petroni (Tepepa).


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Battle of Malemort

The Battle of Malemort occurred on the 21 April 1177 between the mercenary forces of Richard the Lion-hearted and the citizens of Malemort-sur-Corrèze in the Limousin.

Battle of Wayna Daga

He then reduced the number of the mercenary Ottoman arquebusiers to 200, and relying on his own forces retired to Emfraz near Lake Tana for the coming rainy season.

Conan the Mercenary

Conan the Mercenary is a fantasy novel written by Andrew J. Offutt and illustrated by Esteban Maroto featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, the second volume in a trilogy beginning with Conan and the Sorcerer and concluding with The Sword of Skelos.

Flaying

Pierre Basile was flayed alive and all defenders of the chateau hanged on 6 April 1199, by order of the mercenary leader Mercadier, for shooting and killing King Richard I of England with a crossbow at the siege of Chalus in March 1199.

Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán

He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, (Heidelberg, Germany, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda, Ireland, 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France.

Kaboul Kitchen

Gilbert Melki was selected to play the mercenary Jacky as he had evenly divided his career between comedy and drama films, a quality creator Allan Mauduit found desirable.

La Reine Soleil

In defiance of danger the two teenagers travel down the Nile to the burning-hot desert dunes, courageously facing the mercenary Zannanza and priests of Amun Ra, who are conspiring to overthrow the pharaoh because of his rejection of their god.

Louis I, Duke of Anjou

Charles, who counted on the mercenary companies under John Hawkwood and Bartolomeo d'Alviano, for a total of some 14,000 men, was able to divert the French from Naples to other regions of the kingdom and to harass them with guerrilla tactics.

The Devil's Feather

She encounters the mercenary again two years later while based in Baghdad to cover the Iraq conflict.

Tilea

c 1501 - The mercenary army of Luciano Catena recaptures Sartosa from the Corsairs of Araby.