Didn’t Rome do something similar...just saying.
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.
The British did it for centuries. They used the Hessiens against us in our War of Independence.
>>>Didn’t Rome do something similar...just saying.
So did Abe Lincoln and Phil Sheridan. Just saying. Regiments fought at Gettysburg with their officers commanding them in German. And a third of the troopers holding down the western plains were Irish off the boat.
Three years ago, this very day, I went to Govner’s Isle
To stand ferinst the cannon in true military style,
Thirteen American Dollars each month we surely get,
To carry a gun and a bayonet with a military step.
There’s Sergeant John McCafferty and Corp’ral Donahue
They make us march up to the crack in gallant Company Q;
The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go
Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army, Oh.