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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.
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)
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]
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.
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 ...
Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France.She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story.
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 ...
Civil said the meeting was a bit like D'Artagnan against Tréville, the captain of the musketeers, when he arrived saying he was ready to be a musketeer, as he did the same thing with Rassam and it worked. [31] Rassam said that meeting served mainly to confirm that Civil was the right choice for the role. [32] "He arrived with a D'Artagnan ...