Thinking about the Plains of Abraham again. Another example of the use of mercenaries is how both sides had Highland regiments. According to legend, it was the Gaelic speakers in the Highland regiments who helped to negotiate the surrender terms between the English and the French, who apparently could not understand the other's language. That, I suspect, is untrue. I personally think they wanted to negotiate in a neutral language, even though Scotland shared their monarch with England.

Interesting though.