The term ‘Miquelet’ is still used by Cevenol mothers to scold their children “sais tan mal coma un Miquelet!” – Your as mean as a Miquelet! The misquelts were lightly armed auxillary troops with a taste for pillage that served as reiforcements for dragoon regiments. Early to mid 1700’sĪnd from “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Their style of fighting encouraged atrocities by both sides. Some misquelets also fought for the French. Misquelets: From the peculiar lock mechanism, the misquelet, used by Spanish infantry (or Italian troops in Spanish service), this term became generally applied to Spanish troops, but was especially used about irregular bands of local militia fighting the french along the Pyrenees in various wars. Misquelet: this older lock mechanism was most commonly used in spain and Italy after the flintlock was adopted nearly everywhere else in the latter case, it remained in use for several decades. Wars of the age of louis the xiv, 1650-1715 On the odd occasion that you do manage to find something on the men themselves it is often referring to the Napoleonic period, not that this is a bad thing as the astute researcher will quickly gather that they operated much in the same context from the late 1600’s through to the Peninsular war, their interwar antics were little changed also There are some excellent Spanish re-enactor groups focused on the Miquelets A good deal of the time a goggle search of “miquelet” will produce mountains of material on the miquelet musket firing system or miquelet lock, (it seems to be “the new black” amongst antiquarian collectors and popular amongst makers of reproduction pieces).
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