John Hawkwood was kinda a badass og mercenary. True mercenary, often cheerfully switching sides in the middle of wars based on who could pay him more. Ran the White Company, the Blackwater of its time. Though I’d say he was way more badass than Erik Prince https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawkwood …
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Hawkwood vs Prince with some sort of weapons normalization would be interesting matchup. I think Princecwould win because military science has advanced significantly in 700 years, even factoring out weapons tech.
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He rise from longbow man to knight general, so he wouldn’t have been caught up in dumb charging gallantry culture of low strategy melees. But otoh, the descriptions of battles of the era still don’t seem as sophisticated as modern ones.
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