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The 13 pages that link to Swiss mercenaries, each with the reason it gives.

• NostalgiaBroader topic: Their reported longing for home helped prompt early medical accounts of nostalgia.

• MercenaryBroader topic: Their long-standing foreign service illustrates how regional military labor could become a major export.

• Old Swiss ConfederacyRelated: Their military reputation and foreign service brought income and influence to member polities.

• Pike and shotRelated: Their dense pike formations challenged cavalry and helped revive the pike as an infantry weapon.

• Pike squareRelated: Swiss infantry gained a reputation for aggressive pike formations in European campaigns.

• Battle of MarignanoRelated: After Marignano, Swiss military service increasingly shifted from campaigns to foreign contracts.

• CondottieroCompared with: Their infantry formations offered employers a different military resource from condottieri-led companies.

• Ludovico SforzaRelated: Ludovico relied on Swiss troops, whose defection at Novara helped deliver him to the French.

• PartisanRelated: Swiss infantry traditions helped popularize long-hafted weapons in European armies.

• War of the League of CambraiRelated: Swiss forces helped shape control of Milan and fought against France at Marignano.

• Burgundian WarsRelated: Their infantry formations helped make Swiss victories decisive.

• HalberdRelated: Swiss infantry made prominent use of halberds alongside pikes.

• The Art of WarCompared with: Their professional infantry model challenges Machiavelli’s preference for citizen forces.