hmmm, thats what I thought.. thanx people!

Mercenaries have a very long history, from the Janissaries to the Hassashins to the French Foreign Legion to contractors. During that time, the popular idea of what a mercenary is has changed quite a bit. The Hashashins were often tribal warriors who could be hired to fight for other tribes or clans. Ninjas could be hired to fight against other Shoguns or even the Shogun of the area in which they were based. The FFL fights only for France. Contractors fight for the money. But during the time of the US civil war, there were few mercenaries about, and none in North America. Many Canadians got involved in the US civil war for the same reason that many US citizens joined the Canadian and British Armies from 1939-1941. They joined for adventure, for glory, out of a sense of moral outrage, whatever. None of them joined to get rich and none of them joined simply because they were already mercenaries. At that particular time, mercenaries as we now understand them did not exist, and I don't think that the morals of the time would have allowed many people to (re)invent them. Canada and the US are closer in both morals and ideas than most people of either country (myself included) might care to admit, and to me it is definitely not a stretch to imagine a bunch of bored farmer's kids going to join the Union Army.

Dean.

I believe the Da Vinci code or Angels and Demons gives an acurate history of the Hassassin.

HASH-ASSASSIN.
look into it.

I dont get what those Hasasins where up to really..


Whats that movie about??


and Dean, Ninjas fought not agains other shuguns lol, I think the wird u are searching for might be "Daimyos"

War seems to attract adventures from all over the world, and know doubt you could find people from almost every country on one side or another