Citizen-Soldiers Defeat A Professional Army and Found a Confederation. America? No. Switzerland

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For hundreds of years, battlefields of Europe were dominated by mounted armored knights. The entire social order rested on the ability of the feudal lord’s armored troops to bring swift, certain death and destruction to any commoner or group of commoners unwilling to obey. While legends of Robin Hood depict romanticized vision of citizen archers […]

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