stackyFACTSWhen your massive empire runs entirely out of willing soldiers, you just buy heavily armed foreigners.
When your massive empire runs entirely out of willing soldiers, you just buy heavily armed foreigners. During their various 18th-century wars, the British crown legally rented over 30,000 highly trained Hessian soldiers directly from German princes. The princes strictly pocketed the massive cash payments while the heavily disciplined mercenaries were shipped off to fight foreign wars they genuinely cared absolutely nothing about.
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