Mercenary soldiers from which country were described as “Wild Geese”?
Flight of the Wild Geese Flight of the Wild Geese The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. More broadly, the term Wild Geese is used in Irish history to refer to Irish soldiers who left to serve in continental European armies in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. An earlier exodus in 1690, during the same war, had formed the French Irish Brigade, who are sometimes misdescribed as
Code Name: Wild Geese Code Name: Wild Geese Code Name: Wild Geese (, ) is a 1984 West German-Italian Euro War film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins in the first of their three mercenary war films. Despite the films title, "Codename Wildgeese" is not the sequel to "The Wild Geese" film, but a derivative film. Kim Newman described the film as closer to the director's films such as "The Last Hunter" and "Cannibal Apocalypse". In Hong Kong, DEA man Fletcher (Borgnine) heads an operation to cut off the supply of opium to the west; to fund this operation Fletcher has found