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A History of the British Army, Vol. 1, First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War

Note 200 — Chapter V

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Thurloe, vol. vii. p. 714. This is the first passage in which I have encountered the word thus spelt: "certain buildings ... called the barracks or Spanish quarters." But there is mention of a baraque in the besiegers' lines before Ostend in 1604. Grimeston.

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