Quote Originally Posted by KrooK View Post
John Carl Chodkiewicz was undefeated.
Ah, the great Lithuanian general. His troubles were quite similar to those of Wallenstein: no funds, constantly neglected, underestimated and distrusted by his superiors, yet forever on the move and often successful against terrible odds, although the results of most of his victories crumbled because of bad or absent follow-up and lack of funds to sustain them.

It is a mistake to think that only Italy had its condottieri. Seventeenth century Europe had loads of them.