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In "Braveheart", a troop of Irish conscripts are sent ordered to charge at William Wallace's Scottish Army. Instead they join the Scots and fight against the English. Are there any historical examples of conscripted soliders turning coat on a battlefield and fighting against their captors?

by /u/Arsemedicine in /r/AskHistorians

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