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Definition of Miquelets
1. miquelet [n] - See also: miquelet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miquelets
Literary usage of Miquelets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"miquelets. THIS is what the Catalans themselves gave as the origin of the name
in the middle of the seventeenth century. ..."
2. The History of Spain and Portugal from B.C. 1000 to A.D. 1814 by M. M. Busk (1833)
"London, 1005 ¡ л work the authority of which is, however, somewhat impaired by
It9 colouring of strong party feelings. miquelets, similarly annoyed the Ъе- ..."
3. History of the Irish brigades in the service of France, from the revolution by John Cornelius O'Callaghan (1870)
"•with 5 English, Dutch, or Portuguese battalions of regulars, and 2 of miquelets,
or irregulars, under the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, and, by November llth, ..."
4. History of the Peninsular War by Robert Southey (1823)
"The name was popular among the Catalans, the miquelets having distinguished ...
A great bounty was given to these miquelets, but this prevented recruiting ..."
5. The History of England: From the Earliest Period to 1839 by Thomas Keightley (1843)
"Numbers of the miquelets or armed peasantry now flocked to the standard of Charles,
and the siege was carried on with vigour. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"In the dark, and at the risk of stumbling across the miquelets anywhere and at any
... The miquelets had ferreted them out; it was all over with them. ..."
7. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"An honourable treaty was concluded (October 9th); but several of the miquelets
had stolen into the town, and they and the discontented townsmen appeared in ..."
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