HMS Pandour

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pandour, after the Pandurs, an 18th-century force of Croatian soldiers (e.g. Trenck's Pandurs), who served the Habsburg Monarchy as skirmishers and who had a reputation for brutality:

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