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| Hired soldiers were commonly used throughout the Middle Ages, but the rise of national standing armies in the 18th century saw their numbers diminish. In the 1950s and 1960s in Africa, most nations sought independence from their colonial rulers and mercenaries were frequently employed in conflicts between parties seeking to gain control of the new states. Pictured here is a Belgian mercenary commander with troops from Katanga at a machine gun position during a short-lived regional revolt in the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in August 1967. | ||||||
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