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Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war is from Julius Caesar (III.i), a play by Shakespeare.

Both the titles Dogs of War and The Wild Geese are derived from other sources.

It hires a band of mercenaries to do the job.

The plot is that a global British financial syndicate seeks to rescue the deposed leader of a central African nation.

The novel The Wild Geese by Daniel Carney and the film (1978) with the same name.

The novel The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth and the film (1981) with the same name, which go into some detail about an actual if fictionalized mercenary operation in Africa in the 1960s.

The account featured true stories of Major-General Henry McIver, Baron James Harden-Hickey, Winston Spencer Churchill, Captain Philo Norton McGiffin, General William Walker, and Major Frederick Russell Burnham, chief of scouts.

Davis later wrote a non-fiction Real Soldiers of Fortune in 1906.

Richard Harding Davis wrote the 1897 novel Soldier of Fortune.

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During the 1880s, Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery wrote or co-wrote a series of dime novel adventure stories said to have been inspired by his own activities as a mercenary in Central America and South America.

They are initially supportive of an attempted usurpation of the rule of England by Prince John.

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Walter Scott's ' Ivanhoe' features a band of mercenaries referred to as the Free Companions, led by Maurice de Bracy.He gained his experience fighting for various armies during the Thirty Years' War, then still raging in Germany. However, he is very professional, and remains loyal to an employer to the end of his contract. Walter Scott's ' A Legend of Montrose', set in Scotland during the Civil War of the 1640s includes the finely drawn character Dugald Dalgetty, an experienced mercenary who does not fight out of political or religious conviction, but purely for the love of carnage.In ' The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', from Washington Irving's Knickerbocker Tales, the infamous Headless Horseman was said to be the ghost of a Hessian who had been decapitated by a cannonball during the American Revolution.

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