Events Tagged: "mercenaries"

La Tène warrior culture spreads with wine trade - Celtic mercenaries paid in wine, new artistic styles spread along trade routes

Celtic mercenaries serve Dionysius of Syracuse - paid in wine and gold, Celtic warriors become common in Mediterranean armies

Hengist and Horsa arrive in Kent - Vortigern invites Saxon mercenaries to fight Picts, beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement

Aethelred establishes heregeld tax system - permanent annual tax to maintain standing army of Danish mercenaries