I'm interested in second opinions to this r/ELI5. I just finished watching the 2016 movie The Siege of Jadotville in which a group of Irish soldiers under UN orders defend a town against a group of mercenaries in the Congo. It portrays Caucasian, ostensibly French, men fighting along the African...

E.g., in the 2016 movie The Siege of Jadotville, Francophone Caucasian soldiers were fighting along Africans. ELI5:The French Foreign Legion and the Siege of Jadotville : explainlikeimfive But as I said, the French did not want the UN Peacekeepers there - they wanted to get rid of the anti...

How probable was losing citizenship for these mercenaries? I'm referring to just those mercenaries who did return to their native country. See the embolded sentence. Why did G20 country intentionally ignore wrongdoing, and fail to prosecute? Most of whom avoided prosecution and caught the ...

How extensive was the use of white mercenaries in the post-colonial troubles in Africa? : AskHistorians Several American and British mercenaries were executed after being sentenced to death by Angolan courts in the 1970's. Is there a whole list, for other African wars?

In the New Testament, the Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16-18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. I have heard that Massacre of ...

Our help-center lists explicitly one symptom that makes a question "off-topic: It is not about: Questions answered by a simple Google search or to be found in a Wikipedia page I see a problem there. First, the capitalised word "Google" is really an advertisement, unpaid, for one sear...

During the Siege of Jadotville, the Irish "A" company under Quinlan's command and UN mandate seems to have fought pretty well. It is especially mentionned in the linked article a good capacity in counterbattery fire, which is AFAIK a fighting action requiring abilities from soldiers. Even more i...

Wikipedia lists many trade routes called El Camino Real. This is confusing for research, as when I want to research the trail from Mexico City to Santa Fe, I get information about the trail from Mexico City to San Fransisco. Wikipedia and other sources I've seen don't list any distinct names to h...

Saturnino Martín Cerezo, a lieutenant in the Spanish army, was involved in the famous Siege of Baler, in which a small contingent of Spanish soldiers held out against Filipino forces for a period of over 330 days. After the death of the captain, Cerezo took command of the soldiers until the end o...

On the Wikipedia page Jewish Women in the Holocaust, it says: Of the estimated six million Jews who were killed1 during the Holocaust, 2 million of them were women.[2] Conversely, this means that approximately 4 million Jewish men died in the Holocaust. Even if this statistic does not incl...