Category
page 1Swiss mercenaries
Swiss mercenaries
Swiss mercenaries in European armies
Niklaus Manuel
Swiss artist (1484-1530)
Aegidius Tschudi
Swiss historian (1505-1572)
Urs Graf senior
Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (1485-1528)
Karl Weber
Swiss ingenieur and amateuer archaeologist
Theodor von Reding
Spanish general (1755-1809)
Johann Rudolf Wettstein
Swiss diplomat (1594-1666)
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
Swiss poet, author, politician and officer (1762-1834)
Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt
French soldier
Alois von Reding
Swiss noble (1765-1818)
Karl Josef von Bachmann
Swiss aristocrat and soldier
Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio
Swiss officer, commander of the Sonderbund forces (1790-1874)
Jean Daniel Abraham Davel
Swiss soldier, Vaud patriot (1670-1723)
Frederick Haldimand
British Army general
Swiss Guard
Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European courts
François-Rodolphe de Weiss
Swiss politician, philosopher and diplomat (1751-1818)

Ludwig Pfyffer
Swiss military leader and politician (1524-1594)
Ulrich Bräker
Swiss writer

Niklaus Franz von Bachmann
Swiss general
Béat Louis de Muralt
Swiss writer
Henry Bouquet
British Army officer
Jakob Meyer zum Hasen
bürgermeister of the city of Basel (1482-1531)
Hans Leu the Younger
Swiss painter and soldier from Zurich, 1490-1531
Ludwig von Flüe
(1752-1817)
Charles-Daniel de Meuron
founder of a Swiss mercenary regiment
Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein
Swiss naturalist (1784-1878)
Regiment de Meuron
Swiss mercenary infantry regiment
Charles de Warnery
(1720-1786)
Louis Augustin d’Affry
French diplomat
Jean Victor Constant de Rebecque
Swiss general in the Dutch army (1773–1850)
Peter Josef Zeltner
(1765-1830)
William Frülich of Soleure
Swiss military leader
Jean Louis d'Erlach
Swiss general (1595-1650)
Béat Fidèle Antoine Jean Dominique de La Tour-Châtillon de Zurlauben
Swiss historian (1720–1799)

Karl Ludwig von Erlach
Swiss commander-in-chief
Pierre Frédéric de Meuron
Military governor of British Ceylon
Joseph Leonz Andermatt
Swiss general
Max Alphons Pfyffer von Altishofen
Swiss architect and hotel manager (1834-1890)
Hans Christoffel
military officer

Franz Rudolf Frisching
Swiss politician (1733-1807)
Sigmund von Erlach
Swiss politician (1614-1699)
David-Louis Constant de Rebecque
officer (1722–1785)
Cent-suisses
The Cent-Suisses (, Hundred Swiss) were an elite infantry company of Swiss mercenaries that served the French kings from 1471 to 1792 and from 1814 to 1830.
David Hess
Swiss artist (1770-1843)