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BYStephen Carlson

May 7, 2022


This military unit has been guarding the Pope without a break for over 500 years

The Vatican Swiss Guard is primarily regarded as a tourist attraction, but they are actually descended from a famous military tradition and their duties are anything but just ceremonial. Composed of a company of former Swiss military, the Swi…

This military unit has been guarding the Pope without a break for over 500 years

BYStephen Carlson

May 7, 2022

BYBlake Stilwell

Nov 27, 2021


This is when the Pope’s Swiss Guard was deadlier than 300 Spartans

Military history is full of famous last stands – the Greeks at Thermopylae,

Marching in exercise uniform with rifles (1938). (Wikimedia Commons)

BYBlake Stilwell

Nov 27, 2021

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