Mercenaries are Professional Soldiers who fight for the highest bidder, not for a cause but for money.
I assume you are referring to mercenary soldiers who will fight for anyone if paid enough. But soldiers in the national armed forces also receive pay.
I presume you mean in the American Revolutionary War. The answer is for the money; they were paid by the British to fight for them. That is, the rulers who controlled the German mercenary units were paid. The actual mercenary soldiers were drafted or volunteered for military service, but not specifically to fight for the British.
Hessian soldiers were mercenary German soldiers, meaning they were paid to fight on another country's behalf. They fought against the American colonists, on the side of the British, in the Revolutionary War.
Professional soldiers or the term of mercenary.
The person who goes to war for remuneration, is called "a mercenary". However, when you pay for somebody going to war for you, it can be called different things: cowardice politics cleverness :) etc.
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An altruistic person is a good neighbor and a nice person. A mercenary wants to be paid to help with anything.
A person who goes to war is called a soldier. They may be a volunteer or a draftee, but they are still a soldier.
I assume you are referring to mercenary soldiers who will fight for anyone if paid enough. But soldiers in the national armed forces also receive pay.
Mercenary War happened in -240.
I presume you mean in the American Revolutionary War. The answer is for the money; they were paid by the British to fight for them. That is, the rulers who controlled the German mercenary units were paid. The actual mercenary soldiers were drafted or volunteered for military service, but not specifically to fight for the British.
A terrorist works for free. A Mercenary gets paid.
I presume you mean in the American Revolutionary War. The answer is for the money; they were paid by the British to fight for them. That is, the rulers who controlled the German mercenary units were paid. The actual mercenary soldiers were drafted or volunteered for military service, but not specifically to fight for the British.
mercenary
Hessian soldiers were mercenary German soldiers, meaning they were paid to fight on another country's behalf. They fought against the American colonists, on the side of the British, in the Revolutionary War.
Siege of Tunis - Mercenary War - happened in -238.