The british had a large number of italian mercenaries. a. true b. false the british had a large number of italian mercenaries. a. true b. false

False.

The English paid a large number of German mercenaries. This happened in the War of Independence of the United States of America, when England contracted the Hessians, who were the eighteenth-century German mercenaries hired for military service by the British government. They acquired the name of the German state of Hesse-Kassel. The British hired Hessian troops for combat in various conflicts of the eighteenth century,