condottiere
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The execution of the condottiere, Fra Moreale, was an act of ingratitude as well as of treachery.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter
A body of disbanded mercenaries form themselves into the first condottiere company known in Italy.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter
The bridge over the river at Dessau recalls the hot assaults of the condottiere Ernst von Mansfeld in April 1626, and his repulse by the crafty generalship of Wallenstein.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
A condottiere of high birth, Christopher of Oldenburg, accepted the chief command of the expedition.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
He had died at eighty, as lusty and hard and sound an old condottiere as any other professional fighter who bestrode a bronze horse in an Italian piazza.
From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy
