One Million Mercenaries by John McCormack

Author:John McCormack
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leo Cooper

XII

No Money, No Swiss

“Point d’argent, point de Suisse“

Racine, Les Plaideurs, 1.1

The perception of the mercenary profession has been heavily influenced by the strictures of Machiavelli:

“Mercenaries are disunited, thirsty for power, undisciplined, and disloyal; they are brave among their friends and cowards before the enemy; they have a fear of God, they do not keep faith with their fellow men; they avoid defeat just as long as they avoid battle; in peacetime you are despoiled by them, and in wartime by the enemy. The reason for all this is that there is no loyalty or inducement to keep them on the field apart from the little they are paid, and this is not enough to make them want to die for you. They are only too ready to serve in your army when you are not at war; but when war comes they either desert or disperse.”(1)

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