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MIQUELETS (MIQUELETES Or MIGUELETES)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 566 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIQUELETS (MIQUELETES Or MIGUELETES) were irregular See also:local troops in See also:Catalonia who derived their name, it is said, from See also:Miguel or Miquelot de Prats, a Catalan See also:mercenary See also:captain in the service of Cesare See also:Borgia. They enjoyed a certain prominence in the See also:minor See also:wars of See also:Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries, and in See also:peace seem to have plundered travellers. In the See also:War of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession (q.v.) the Miquelets continued the struggle against the See also:French claimant until See also:long after the peace. During the See also:Peninsular War they were exceedingly successful in harassing the French invaders in the mountains of Catalonia. Sometimes they even attempted operations in large bodies, as in the operations See also:round See also:Gerona in 18o8 and 1809. They were maintained by the several parishes, not by the central or the provincial governments, and as they had to turn out for See also:duty on See also:sound of the See also:village alarm-See also:bell (somaten) they are frequently called somatenes.

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