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Miquelet|ˈmɪkəlɪt|
Also 9 miquelete, miquelite, miguelet(e.
[a. F. miquelet, ad. Sp. miquelete, miguelete, f. Cat. Miquel, Sp. Miguel, Michael. (For the supposed origin of the name see quot. 1845.)]
a. In the 17th c., a member of a body of Catalonian banditti who infested the Pyrenees.
b. Before and during the Peninsular war, a Spanish guerrilla soldier; also, a member of a corps of French irregulars raised by Napoleon in 1808 for service against the Spaniards.
c. In modern Spain, the designation of the soldiers of certain local regiments of infantry, chiefly employed on escort duties.
1670Lond. Gaz. No. 476/4 The Miquelets or Mountaineers were again got together in a little Village,..neer the Pyrenean hills. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Miquelets, Mountaneers (in Spain) or Spanish Rapparies. 1721Lett. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 176 No more, you Holiday Fools, throw away your Six-pences,..to see a Spanish Miquelet swallow a Toad. 1779Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 501 The miquelets or mountaineers who so cruelly harrassed the French armies. 1827Southey Penins. War II. 358, 10,000 Miquelets and Somatenes..had been sent..to take advantage of any insurrection that might be attempted in Barcelona. 1829Sir W. Napier Penins. War v. iv. 57 Francisco Milans and Milans de Bosch, with their Migueletes, keep the mountains to the northward of Barcelona. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain xxiv, One of those singular half soldiers half guerillas, called Miguelets. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain I. i. 41 A regular body of men was organized for that purpose [as a government escort] all over Spain, and were called ‘Miquelites’, from, it is said, one Miquel de Prats, an armed satellite of..Cæsar Borgia. 1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes (1886) 186 Militiaman and Miquelet and dragoon..they had all been sabreing and shooting. |