Definition of Miquelets. Meaning of Miquelets. Synonyms of Miquelets

- Miquelets or Micalets (Catalan pronunciation: [mikəˈlɛts]; Spanish: Migueletes) were irregular Catalan and Valencian mountain light infantry units. They...
- locks, applied to all manner of flintlocks, miquelets included). Contemporaries did not use the term "miquelet" to describe any type of lock or firearm....
- of miquelet lock, closely allied to the agujeta lock (which required a back or dog catch for half ****) and the Italian romanlock. The term miquelet is...
- forces, the miquelets, who laid ambushes to Noailles' forces from woods and heights. One of the most effective leaders of the miquelets was Captain Ramon...
- wear from striking the frizzen. (See also flintlock mechanism, snaphance, Miquelet lock.) The flintlock was widely used during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries...
- mechanical progression of the wheellock firing mechanism, and along with the miquelet lock and doglock are predecessors of the flintlock mechanism. The name...
- complement to the regular troops of the Bourbon army, which opposed the Miquelets, who survived as rebel supporters of Archduke Charles. The Mossos was...
- 800 men of the Fija de Roses regiment and 400 miquelets, the Catalan militia, with 5,000 more miquelets under Colonel Juan Clarós in the nearby hills...
- successive Combats of El Bruc outside Barcelona, local Catalan militia, the Miquelets (also known as sometents), defeated François Xavier de Schwarz's 4,000...
- Miquelets de Catalunya is a Spanish living history and historical reenactment group founded in 2005 that reenacts several Catalan Army units from the...