The song is from the late period of the mercenary armies in 1790, as in France also have the was standing army, which was composed mainly of forcibly recruited soldiers. The novel describes the shooting of a Swiss deserters, who had the Prussians want to run. Related to this is the "Swiss disease", the homesickness. The fact that the Swiss were ever so far away from home, was due to the brisk trade in Swiss mercenaries, the 13th since the Century to "commission" to other countries sold. This rice, called human trafficking was running for the cantons an important source of income. The Zurich reformer Zwingli used in his famous sermons against the mercenary service 1525, the image of the red hats and jackets of the Roman cardinals. If they shake, fell ducats and crowns when they wring, groove out the blood of the sons, brothers, fathers and relatives.
is which remains to this day the Swiss Guards of the Vatican.
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