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    Thomas Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare (17 March 1919 – 2 February 2020) was an Irish military officer and mercenary who fought during the Simba rebellion and...
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    directed Mancham's representative to Mike Hoare and a South African government front company called Longreach. "Mad" Mike Hoare had served as a mercenary during...
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    possible employment as mercenaries. The ex-British military officer, Mike Hoare, had known Tshombe and had served as one of his officers in 1961 and was...
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  • named after the Wild Goose flag and shoulder patch used by Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare's Five Commando, ANC, which in turn was inspired by a 17th-century Irish...
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  • together with Mike Hoare, the military advisor for the film The Wild Geese (1978). In November 1981 Moneta was second-in-command to Mike Hoare when the latter...
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  • Mike Hoare (1919–2020), Irish mercenary leader Marko Attila Hoare (born 1972), British historian Mary Hoare (1744–1820), English artist Peter Hoare (disambiguation)...
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    character who later was transformed by George Lucas into Indiana Jones. Mike Hoare was a British career soldier who served with distinction in the London...
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  • Italian-born South African mercenary who served under Mike Hoare in the Congo. He was second-in-command to Hoare during the failed 1981 coup at Mahe Airport in...
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    President René, some of which were supported by South Africa. In 1981, Mike Hoare led a team of 43 South African mercenaries masquerading as holidaying...
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    Limbani were largely based on Tshombe and his military ally Maj. "Mad Mike" Hoare. Tshombe has been played twice by the French actor Pascal N'Zonzi, first...
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  • campaigner and Little Rivonia Trialist. Looksmart Ngudle – political activist. Mike Hoare - mercenary charged with hijacking an Air India jet in an attempt at a...
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    coup attempt sponsored by South Africa. Notorious British Colonel "Mad Mike" Hoare and a team of 43 mercenaries posed as members of the "Ancient Order of...
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  • fictional character is a light homage to Congo mercenary leader "Mad" Mike Hoare, who led the Congolese 5 Commando during the actual Simba rebellion and...
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  • Force as well as serving as a mercenary in Mad Mike Hoare's outfit (the film the Wild Geese is based on Hoare's exploits). As an actor in the action genre...
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  • (1913–1998), British Army lieutenant-colonel Mad Mike Hoare (1919–2020), British mercenary leader Mike Hughes (daredevil) (c. 1955–2020), American stuntman...
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    a gun battle at Seychelles International Airport, as British national Mike Hoare led a team of 43 South African mercenaries masquerading as holidaying...
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    assisting the United Nations and other peacekeepers. In 1960 and 1961, Mike Hoare worked as a mercenary commanding the English-speaking unit "4 Commando...
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    their original units, others joined the new Zambian Army, some joined Mike Hoare in the Congo, and many others returned to civilian life.: 163  The new...
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  • ex-gendarmes and mercenaries to bolster the ANC. These troops were led by Mike Hoare and organized as units termed "Commandos", relying on speed and firepower...
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  • Thomas Hoare or Hore may refer to: Thomas Hoare (mercenary), known as Mike Thomas Hore, MP Thomas Hoare, one of the Candidates of the New South Wales state...
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  • destroyed the continuity of the story. Tullio Moneta was second-in-command to Mike Hoare when the latter led the 1981 Seychelles coup d'état attempt at Mahe Airport...
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  • ex-gendarmes and mercenaries to bolster the ANC. These troops were led by Mike Hoare and organized as units termed "Commandos", relying on speed and firepower...
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  • against René by a group of 44 white mercenaries led by Colonel "Mad" Mike Hoare. Other coups were also planned by elements in René’s regime, among Seychellois...
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    Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare)/hɔːr/ hor FRS FREng (born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist who has made...
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  • initially created by Frédéric Vandewalle and later commanded by Lt. Col. Mike Hoare. 4 Commando involvement in the Congo was limited and short-lived. The...
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    Armée Nationale Congolaise, ANC) was aided by mercenary troops led by Mike Hoare and supported by anti-Castro Cuban pilots and the CIA. These forces thwarted...
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    expectation for an attack by ANC infantry and the motorized Gendarmes. Mike Hoare, a white mercenary commander, led three boats of mercenaries around the...
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  • Africa. In 1981, the Seychelles experienced a failed coup attempt by Mike Hoare and a team of mercenaries. An international commission, appointed by the...
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  • colonel in World War II "Mad Mike" – Mike Calvert, British Second World War leader of Special Forces formations Mike Hoare, British officer and mercenary...
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  • frightening people he had ever met;[citation needed] the mercenaries Mike Hoare, Bob Denard, "Black Jack" Schramme and Rolf Steiner are all mentioned...
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