Sentences with 'mercenary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mercenary and other words derived from it.
• « The Arabs were also known to be some of the fiercest and most effective mercenary warriors in the eastern Mediterranean region; they rode lean, fast and agile horses and fought as light cavalry. »
• « The following year, a small British force of 800 men with 2,000 Indian mercenary troops (called sepoys) defeated the prince at the Battle of Plassey, and then began the process of taking over the entire province of Bengal. »
• « Garibaldi was an adventurer, a romantic nationalist and a revolutionary who had spent most of his adult life as a mercenary fighting in independence campaigns and wars, mainly in South America. »