Miquelet lock is a modern term used by collectors and curators for a type of firing mechanism used in muskets and pistols. It is a distinctive form of...

Miquelets or Micalets (Catalan pronunciation: [mikəˈlɛts]; Spanish: Migueletes) were a type of irregular light infantry from Catalonia and Valencia which...

of miquelet lock, closely allied to the agujeta lock (which required a back or dog catch for half cock) and the Italian romanlock. The term miquelet is...

mechanical progression of the wheellock firing mechanism, and along with the miquelet lock and doglock are predecessors of the flintlock mechanism. The name...

originally built with matchlock but by the late 16th century, the more reliable miquelet lock was introduced. This would become standard by the late 17th century...

MiqueletsTV (also known as AlmogaversTV) is a children's and youth livestreaming channel in Catalan, which broadcasts as a user through the US-based platform...

to the early 20th centuries. Characterized by its long, slender barrel, miquelet lock, and ornate decoration, it was a prized weapon of both everyday life...

matchlock to wheellock to the earlier flintlocks (snaplock, snaphance, miquelet, and doglock) in the previous two centuries, and each type had been an...

empire from the 16th-19th centuries, making the leap from matchlock to miquelet. An ornate musket from the Bay of Kotor region, renowned for its stock...

was covered in mother of pearl inlay. It used the typical Balkan style Miquelet lock found on the Tançica & Rašak. The barrel is usually decorated with...

"the Albanian") was a distinctive type of smoothbore musket utilizing a miquelet lock produced and widely used throughout the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire...

standout feature. It is a unique and original Bulgarian pattern of the miquelet lock, not found on other regional firearms. The lockplate, cock, and bridge...

Lock, the Russian Snaplock, and the Miquelet lock. Caplock mechanism Firearm Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Miquelet Percussion cap Snaphance Wheellock...

Tran 2006, p. 107. Andrade 2016, p. 169. Andrade 2016, p. 171. "Pair of Miquelet Pistols". Metropolitan Museum of Art website. Archived from the original...

Miquelets de Catalunya is a Spanish living history and historical reenactment group founded in 2005 that reenacts several Catalan Army units from the...

Navale. Arquebus Demi-culverin Doglock Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Miquelet lock Musket Pistol Snaphance Snaplock Wheellock "culverin". Oxford English...

and stock design. Action: The most common lock mechanism was the robust Miquelet lock, prized for its reliability. However, examples with conventional flintlock...

only released when the lock is brought to the full-cock position. The miquelet lock is the penultimate of the flint-sparking locks. It has an L-shaped...

circa 1715. It came with a ready-to-load reusable cartridge. This is a miquelet system. Mechanism of Philip V's breech-loading firearm Patrick Ferguson...

the pan rather than having to fall a certain distance from the frizzen. Miquelet Percussion cap "Animated Wheellock Mechanism". www.arc.id.au. Retrieved...

le Bourgeoys around 1610. He may have been influenced by the Spanish "miquelet" lock that utilized a similarly shaped frizzen at least two decades earlier...

Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle (Baker Rifle) (limited) 1817 Ramon Zuloaga Miquelet-lock Fusil Various other French and Spanish Sidearms Various French and...

miquelet used in the Ottoman Empire Džeferdar, ornate musket from Montenegro Boyliya, Bulgarian musket with unique lock Khirimi, Caucasian miquelet musket...

A breech loading miquelet musket with a reusable cartridge, used by Philip V, made by A. Tienza, Madrid, circa 1715....

wear from striking the frizzen. (See also flintlock mechanism, snaphance, Miquelet lock.) The flintlock was widely used during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries...

Cossacks were equipped with their own distinctive horse pistol, featuring a miquelet lock imported from Spain or Italy, a stock carved from an elm root, a bulbous...

many were later converted to percussion systems. A variant utilizing a Miquelet lock was produced in the Balkans and known by the name Rašak. Barrel: Though...

Breech-loading firearms Caplock mechanism Firearms Flintlock Matchlock Miquelet Musket Pepperbox Snaphance Snaplock Terzerol Wheellock Rifled muzzle loader...

18th Century, the lock was unique, being of the characteristic Spanish "Miquelet" type. This action reworked some of the accepted design practices of the...

A pair of early dragons from Poland fitted with the miquelet lock...

appearance in the 16th century in the form of the snaplock, the snaphance, the miquelet, and the doglock. The so-called true flintlock was developed in France...

French-occupied Castellfollit de la Roca, and 16 companies of Catalan miquelets along with several armed peasants at the orders of Ramon de Sala i Saçala...

18th century coral decorated Miquelet firearm from Algiers...

a large force of miquelets at Mataró. There were an estimated 10,000 Catalans with three or four cannons. On 17 June, the miquelets were easily defeated...

a brief and showy start, or momentary sensation of no real importance. Miquelet lock Glossary of firearms terminology Sun, Laichen (September 2003). "Chinese...

de main. Within a few days, the fortress was manned by 3,000 Catalan miquelets and 1,500 Spanish regulars and placed under the command of Martínez. A...

Army of Flanders Army of Alsace Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia Miquelet Indian auxiliaries Army of Arauco Spanish Armada Ships of the line Royalists...

Shishane with miquelet locks, 1750–1800, Army Museum, Paris...

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...

A pair of Ottoman blunderbuss pistols on display in Poland fitted with the miquelet lock...

local territory. It thus contrasted with the other Spanish militia, the miquelets, irregular troops that could also be sent to fight outside their territory...

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regions of Catalonia and Valencia, where thousands of well-organised miquelets (in conjunction with local militias known as somatenes) had already proved...

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Musnier and Bernard-Georges-François Frère to clear the Catalan militia or miquelets away from the Lleida–Barcelona road. Overlooking the road, the guerrilla...

Francesc Rovira i Sala or Francisco Rovira (1764 – 1820) led miquelets (Catalan militia) against Imperial France in a number of partisan actions during...

complement to the regular troops of the Bourbon army, which opposed the Miquelets, who survived as rebel supporters of Archduke Charles. The Mossos was...

successive Combats of El Bruc outside Barcelona, local Catalan militia, the Miquelets (also known as sometents), defeated François Xavier de Schwarz's 4,000...

18th-century Turkish guns with miquelet locks, c. 1750–1800....

defenders consisting of English and Dutch marines and Spanish soldiers and miquelets loyal to Charles. The defenders were aided from late October by a naval...

beginning of the conflict. The irregular militia involved were known as "Miquelets". The situation took Olivares by surprise, with most of the Spanish army...

at Moià and arranged for the miquelets (Catalan militia) to join him in attacking Vic. On 19 February, 3,500 miquelets led by Francesc Rovira i Sala...

included 2,000 regulars, 2,300 local miquelets (Catalan Militia), and Francesc Rovira i Sala's band of 3,000 miquelets. This minor disaster caused Marshal...

withdraw to the line of the Ter, harassed en route by General Trinxería's miquelets. By shielding Barcelona in this way the Allies kept Spain in the war for...

George's Cross (Creu de Sant Jordi) from the Generalitat de Catalunya. 1996, Miquelet d'Honor from the Societat Coral El Micalet, de Valencia. 1997, Premi Cavanilles...

the late 16th century, flintlock muskets (Turkish: çakmaklı tüfenk) with miquelet lock were being produced and gradually introduced in the Ottoman Empire...

mostly disintegrated, as a Carlist candidate. He lost to Carlos Cusi de Miquelet. However, he re-calibrated his focus and few months later emerged as a...

2026-02-14. "North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2026-02-14. "Miquelet Lock Musket Presented to President...

abandon the pike altogether (flintlocks and proto-flintlocks, such as the miquelet lock, had been in use since the early 16th century, but remained less common...

act and free verse mingled with vaudevilles, in-8° 1795: Helena, ou les Miquelets, opera in two acts, Paris, in-8° 1795: Élisa, ou le Voyage au mont Saint-Bernard...

Buccaneer and Privateer guns; Dutch Flintlock Pistol (1/6 scale); and the Miquelet Moorish lock pistol. These kits were also re-boxed by Life-Like under license...

in substitution of the somatén and to put an end to the strongholds of miquelets supporting Charles of Austria. Just as it is impossible to find in the...

developed in Spain during the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian peninsula. Miquelet lock was invented by gunsmiths in Madrid during the late 16th century (circa...

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single-shot firearms included matchlock, wheellock, snaplock, doglock, miquelet lock, flintlock, and percussion cap firearms. Muzzleloaders included the...

and children. Other opponents of the Protestants included six hundred miquelet marksmen from Roussillon hired as mercenaries by the King. In 1704, Claude...

allowed him to capture 55 villages in the region, although irregular local miquelets combined with the French military in resisting the invasion. Spanish incursions...

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National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2025-05-11. "North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2025-05-10...

Reenactment of the battle of Arbúcies, portrayed by the reenactment groups Miquelets de Catalunya and Miquelets de Girona....

to alert them. The miquelets were organized into 1,000-man "tercios". Newly-raised units are labeled "Volunteers" or "new". Miquelets and militia have the...

Spanish force, including the Kayser Swiss Regiment, Numancia Dragoons, and miquelets. On the morning of the 14th, O'Donnell attacked La Bisbal in overwhelming...

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trigger and lock, such as the European wheellock and snaplock or the Ottoman miquelet lock. During the mid-18th century Indian rulers began using flintlock (tufang-i...

tribes like the Qajars. Most soldiers were armed with flintlock or older miquelet lock muskets, with some having matchlocks, and every soldier also carried...

Army of Flanders Army of Alsace Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia Miquelet Indian auxiliaries Army of Arauco Spanish Armada Ships of the line Royalists...

rainstorm. By the 6th he reached the Bruch Pass and found 300 to 400 miquelets of Manresa waiting for him in a pine forest. The Battle of the Bruch began...

which, in the case of Catalonia, ran to several thousand well-organised miquelets, or somatenes, who had already proved their worth in the Catalan revolt...

places) Laxague (ruins) Mandio Mendiburia Manéchans (ruins) Millafranque Miquelet Olheguy Oquelargainia Othaburia Oxobia Oyhanburia Oyhenart Oyhenartia Patatouch...

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Carlist War (1874). The town is occupied by the liberals (they are called miquelets), while the mounts surrounding it are filled with the Carlists. The action...

perhaps from (AHD) Mikha'el 'Michael' (MW) (='who [is] like God?') (SC) miquelet probably from Catalan Miquel (NI), from Mikha'el 'Michael' (MW) (='who...

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faculty that they have of appearing and disappearing. As for the word “miquelets,” it refers primarily to Catalan mercenaries but sometimes to armed peasants...

Spanish troops arrived from the Balearic Islands. Supported by thousands of miquelets (Catalan militia) the Spaniards blockaded Barcelona at the beginning of...

Suchet struck another blow against the Catalans when his troops seized the miquelet base in the Battle of Montserrat on 25 July 1811. The unpopular but vigorous...

did not pursue their advantage and were routed when reinforcements of miquelets and somatenes arrived. The battle saw troops of the Swiss Wimpffen Regiment...

to withdraw. Reille retired to Figueres with little trouble, but the miquelets, a Catalan militia, harassed Duhesme's soldiers unmercifully. Duhesme...

an infantry company of mountain fusiliers (called "Catalan Company of Miquelets",commanded by captain Jaume Burguy). Both protected the isthmus of Gibraltar...

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and laid siege to the small garrison. The garrison, knowing that the miquelets would murder them, surrendered to Lord Cochrane and the entire garrison...

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of Broglie and was placed in command of the Royal army, hiring 3,000 miquelets. On February 25, the king granted Montrevel and Nicolas de Lamoignon de...

under Captain Francisco de Sandoval and the second consisted of Catalan miquelets under Jaume Burguy. Heinrich's force immediately responded to the incursion...

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de Voluntarios de Cataluña), an independent military unit composed of Miquelets (Catalan irregular troops). In 1767, the company was sent on a transatlantic...

were considered quite significant at the time. Local Catalan guerrillas (Miquelets) aided the Spanish regulars in driving the French out of Catalonia, and...

Mortier with news of the VII Corps, Briche was attacked by swarms of miquelets, the Catalan militia, and abandoned his mission. Briche took refuge with...

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Augereau's division drove two Spanish line battalions and about 1,000 miquelets from Sant Llorenç de la Muga (San Lorenzo de la Muga), seizing the cannon...

Army of Catalonia numbered 23,000 soldiers. However, because the Catalan miquelets were so active, not a single man could be spared from Decaen's force....

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soldiers of various origins: Navarrese-Aragonese, Catalans, smugglers, Miquelets, adventurers and a regiment commanded by an Englishman named Doyle who...

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himself conspicuous under the Prince de Tilly by his services against the miquelets of the archduke's party. The picturesque details of his being circumvented...

the guilds Offices Even so, the Coroneles and mercenary troops such as miquelets were not included in the army, the troops had to be professional and well-armed...

before the Volunteers' arrival in New Spain. History of British Columbia Miquelets Pedro de Alberní y Teixidor Pedro Fages Sanchez, pgs. 3–12. Sanchez, pg...

off from the rest of the Grande Armée in Spain by thousands of Catalan miquelets (militia), supported by a few Spanish regular troops. A few weeks previously...

de Cal Tirs of the Pla de Sant Tirs. Her father was commander of the Miquelets of Organyà between 1821 and 1823 during the Trienio Liberal and, under...

the right bank of the Llobregat. But these troops were repulsed by the miquelets commanded by Dídac de Vergós. The 21, the bulk of the Spanish royal army...

Souham, Augereau made an expedition in January in which all captured miquelets (militiamen) were hanged. In retaliation, the Spanish began killing all...

company under Captain Francisco de Sandoval and a company of Catalan miquelets under Jaume Burguy. The three companies numbered around 300 men in total...