Note 41 — CHAP. XVII. CRUISE OF THE IMPÉRIEUSE CONTINUED.

A name given at this period to the irregular Catalonian troops, as well as to other Spaniards embodied with them, from one of their old leaders, MicheletMichelet de Prato, the companion of Cæsar Borgia, and the principal agent in many of his atrocities. In the old wars of Arragon, they were called Almogavares, and at the period of which I write had lost little of their traditional daring, or that ready ingenuity in difficulties, which supplied the want of a more efficient warlike equipment.