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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Background and name=== | ===Background and name=== | ||
Since the days of the [[Knights of the Realm]] in the late middle ages, [[Yonderian mercenaries]] have had a reputation for fearless military prowess, a notable early example being [[Siegmar von Willing]]'s [[Black Company]] which took part in many major battles of the [[Great Confessional War]] and other conflicts of the time. Long before the [[Great War]]s, the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] had already raised several regiments of Yonderians to fight in wars for [[Burgundie]], supplementing the mercenary soldiers that were already being hired from Yonderre. A common and recurring joke from the 17th century told in Yonderre and Burgundie alike was that the Yonderian army was at all times "''on loan''" to the Bergendii. Beginning with the influx of Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the [[ | Since the days of the [[Knights of the Realm]] in the late middle ages, [[Yonderian mercenaries]] have had a reputation for fearless military prowess, a notable early example being [[Siegmar von Willing]]'s [[Black Company]] which took part in many major battles of the [[Great Confessional War]] and other conflicts of the time. Long before the [[Great War]]s, the [[Burgoignesc Foreign Legion]] had already raised several regiments of Yonderians to fight in wars for [[Burgundie]], supplementing the mercenary soldiers that were already being hired from Yonderre. A common and recurring joke from the 17th century told in Yonderre and Burgundie alike was that the Yonderian army was at all times "''on loan''" to the Bergendii. Beginning with the influx of Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie in the [[First Great War]], the Yonderian volunteers were often referred to as ''Volonderres'', a contraction of the [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] word ''Volonteuer'' ([[Julian Ænglish]]: Volunteer) and ''[[Yonderre]]'', a term which would later spread into general use in [[Levantia]] to refer to Yonderian volunteers. | ||
Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie came chiefly, but not exclusively, from the ethnic and cultural [[Bergendii]] communities of Yonderre. Incentives to join were many for the would-be volunteers; for many it was a way out of unemployment that had been present in Yonderre following the [[Great Depression]] and stock market crashes of 1910. For others, it was a question of protecting Yonderre's [[Culture in Burgundie#Cultural hegemony|historic and cultural motherland]] in the face of increasing [[Burgophobia]]. | Yonderian volunteers to Burgundie came chiefly, but not exclusively, from the ethnic and cultural [[Bergendii]] communities of Yonderre. Incentives to join were many for the would-be volunteers; for many it was a way out of unemployment that had been present in Yonderre following the [[Great Depression]] and stock market crashes of 1910. For others, it was a question of protecting Yonderre's [[Culture in Burgundie#Cultural hegemony|historic and cultural motherland]] in the face of increasing [[Burgophobia]]. | ||