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Operation Angela. Thomas Michael " Mad Mike " Hoare (17 March 1919 – 2 February 2020) was a British military officer and mercenary who fought during the Simba rebellion and was involved in carrying out the 1981 Seychelles coup d'état attempt.
In 1964-1965 Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 ‘ Wild Geese ’ across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2000 nuns and priests from barbarity, beat Che Guevara … and become a legend.
2 February 2020. Getty Images. Mike Hoare, seen here with his bodyguard in 1964, was internationally renowned until his career ended in an embarrassing anti-climax. Michael "Mad Mike"...
Dec 23, 2020 · No one had any idea that “Mad Mike” Hoare had been a leader of mercenaries in central Africa, that he had dueled with Che Guevara in Congo, that his exploits had already inspired a Hollywood...
Feb 3, 2020 · CNN — Michael “Mad Mike” Hoare, one of the world’s best-known mercenaries, has died at the age of 100, his family has confirmed. A former accountant, Hoare gained fame – and inspired a movie...
Feb 3, 2020 · Mike Hoare, an Irish soldier of fortune who led white mercenary forces in civil wars in Congo in the 1960s and a ragtag band of commandos in a farcical aborted coup in the Seychelles in 1981,...
Feb 15, 2020 · “Mad Mike” Hoare, who emerged as one of the best-known soldiers of fortune in Africa during the 1960s, has died in Durban, South Africa, aged 100.
Apr 19, 2021 · Mad Mike Hoare: How a Businessman Became a Legendary Mercenary. Irish-born “Mad Mike” Hoare led a rag-tag band of mercenaries on a comic-opera invasion of the Seychelles Islands. This article appears in: June 2006.
‘Mad Mike’ Hoare, mercenary in Congo who later led a failed coup, dies at 100. By Harrison Smith. February 5, 2020 at 8:33 p.m. EST. Mike Hoare, celebrating his 100th birthday in 2019,...
Mike Hoare, known universally by the moniker “Mad Mike”, was the mercenary whose African military adventures were immortalised in the film The Wild Geese. Hoare, who has died age 100, was...
