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Updated: May 26, 2025
If the Carlists had no serious artillery in fact, they had a powerful ordnance in the apprehensions of their adversaries. Perhaps this was the explanation of the rhodomontade about the batteries in El Cuartel Real. We were congratulating ourselves on the ease with which we had run the blockade, when an officer of the Miqueletes approached our carriage and demanded our papers.
The Miqueletes, a soldierly body of men in scarlet Basque scones very like to the Carlist head-gear, and a blue capote with cape attached, garrisoned the citadel. They were brave and loyal to the Republic, and the object of deep grudge to the Chicos, for they were Basques of the towns.
Two of the Miqueletes ventured stealthily down a road leading towards the point from which the nearest jets of smoke curled, following the ditch by the side, stooping and peering through the bushes. There was a volley from afar. They hesitated and stood, as if undecided whether to advance. "Sound the retire for those men," said the captain; and as the call rang out they returned.
A few civilians had crept out of the town by this time, and the chief of the Miqueletes roared peremptorily to have that gate shut. This was not an agreeable position for Barbarossa and myself. Our retreat was cut off. We were unarmed. If one of those amateur warriors were killed, we ran the imminent hazard of being massacred by his comrades.
The Cura of Vera Fueros of the Basques Carlist Discipline Fate of the San Margarita The Squadron of Vigilance How a Capture was Effected The Sea-Rovers in the Dungeon Visit to the Prisoners San Sebastian A Dead Season The Defences of a Threatened City Souvenirs of War The Miqueletes In a Fix A German Doctor's Warning.
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