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  2. Musketeers of the Guard - Wikipedia

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    The Musketeers of the military household of the King of France (Mousquetaires de la maison militaire du roi de France), also known as the Musketeers of the Guard (French: Mousquetaires de la garde) or King's Musketeers (Mousquetaires du roi), were an elite fighting company of the military branch of the Maison du Roi, the royal household of the French monarchy.

  3. Musketeer - Wikipedia

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    Over 300 musketeers served in the Kongo army against the Portuguese at the Battle of Mbwila in 1665. [29] [30] Musketeers were employed into the Wydah army from 1680 AD but they did not completely replace the spearmen, swordsmen and archers. In war, the Musketeers were first to go into action as they fought in the front ranks of the army. [31]

  4. Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan - Wikipedia

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    Jean Marais in Le Masque de fer (French film of The Man in the Iron Mask) (1962) George Nader in The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962, Italian) Jean-Pierre Cassel in Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964, French) Jim Backus in "The Three Musketeers", (an animated TV adaptation shown as a two-part episode of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo) (1964)

  5. France in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the Norman and Angevin regions ...

  6. Maison militaire du roi de France - Wikipedia

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    The first was retained because of its close ties to the Royal Court, the French and Swiss Guards because they comprised the largest, and historically most effective, infantry components of the Maison du Roi. At the French Revolution's outbreak in July 1789, the French Guards defected from the monarchy and joined in the attack on the Bastille.

  7. Popular revolts in late medieval Europe - Wikipedia

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    Richard II of England meets the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt. Popular revolts in late medieval Europe were uprisings and rebellions by peasants in the countryside, or the burgess in towns, against nobles, abbots and kings during the upheavals between 1300 and 1500, part of a larger "Crisis of the Late Middle Ages".

  8. ‘The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady’ Review: Eva Green ...

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    For readers of Alexandre Dumas’ novel, extravagant French adaptation “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady” packs its share of surprises: killing off important characters, sparing others ...

  9. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...