Meanings of german mercenaries in English

Two thousand German mercenaries were sent with him to support his pretensions.

The other tables are surrounded by German mercenaries, peasants, and sailors.

There were also the British prisoners to receive, besides ten thousand German mercenaries.

The garrison consisted only of some fifteen hundred German mercenaries and the burgher force.

A few of the prince's German mercenaries had been left there as a garrison.

About the same time transports arrived with more German mercenaries, and Howe, thus reinforced, entered the Jerseys.

The government was hiring German mercenaries.

In the outset of a glorious war, the English people had been defended by the aid of German mercenaries.

The committee of supply forthwith granted a very large sum for these purposes, including the charge of German mercenaries.

Odoacer, a leader of German mercenaries, dethrones Augustulus and puts an end to the Western Empire for three centuries.

They understood the conditions of warfare in the New World much better than the British regulars or the German mercenaries.

Louis of Nassau, a brother of Prince William, hired German mercenaries and invaded Flanders, where he won some slight successes.

'Are the Irish and the German mercenaries defeated?'

Nevertheless the city was full of armed men, Swiss and German mercenaries, and burgher guards, sworn to fidelity to the throne.

They differed from the German mercenaries inasmuch that while the latter mutinied before they fought, the Spaniards fought first and mutinied afterwards.

The large sums required to facilitate this measure made it necessary to submit for a while to the presence of the German mercenaries.