MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Plausible Deniability, Navigation Acts, Paradise Papers
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The first institution is mercenaries people who are fighting for someone else other than their sovereign king. When we look at the american revolution, it was really the french that won because of the army they sent. British troops were actually german mercenaries who were fighting for a combination of money and other kingdom"s who lent their armies to the british crown. There are variations on mercenaries, the ones who fight simply for money they are on bands, which are guns for hire". In the atlantic world, if you wanted to fight but had the money but didn"t have the troops you could hire mercenaries. A lot of those who fought in the american revolution are from allied states from. After the reformation there are big wars of religion across europe, through to the. Americas led to bands of soldiers being driven by either protestant or catholic religion.
