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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,...
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
Feb 2, 2020 · “Mad Mike” Hoare, who has died aged 100, was an Irish accountant who became the world’s most famous mercenary; the success of his campaigns in the Congo in the 1960s endowed his calling with...
