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Picquet (other)
Picquet may refer to: An alternative spelling for ''Picket'' *Picquet (military), a small temporary military post closer to the enemy than the main formation; or a group of soldiers detailed for a specific duty (e.g., fire picquet) * Picquet (punishment), a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe People *François Picquet (1708–1781), Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734 *Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720–1791), French admiral *Aimé Picquet du Boisguy (1776–1839), French chouan general during the French Revolution * Louisa Picquet (c. 1828,–1896), American whose life became the subject of a biography ''Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life'' * Christian Picquet, pseudonym of Christian Lamothe (born 1952), French activist and politician See also * La Motte-Picquet (other) * * Picket (other) * Pickett (other) Pickett is a surname. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picquet (military)
A picket (archaically, picquet ariant form ''piquet'' is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (e.g. a scout vehicle, surveillance aircraft or patrol ship) performing a similar function. A picket guarding a fixed position may be known as a sentry or guard. Origins Picket (Fr. , a pointed stake or peg, from , 'to point or pierce'), is thought to have originated in the French Army around 1690, from the circumstance that an infantry company on outpost duty dispersed its musketeers to watch, with a small group of pikemen called ''piquet'' remaining in reserve. It was in use in the British Army before 1735 and probably much earlier. Usage ''Picket'' now refers to a soldier or small unit of soldiers maintaining a watch. This may mean a watch for the enemy, or other types of watch e.g. fire picket. This can be likened to the art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picquet (punishment)
The picket, picquet or piquet was a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. It consisted of the offender being forced to stand on the narrow flat top of a peg for a period of time. The punishment died out in the 18th century and was so unfamiliar by 1800 that when the then governor of Trinidad, Sir Thomas Picton, ordered Luisa Calderon, a woman of European and African ancestry to be so punished, he was accused by public opinion in England of inflicting a torture akin to impalement. It was thought erroneously that the prisoner was forced to stand on the head of a pointed stake, and this error was repeated in the ''New English Dictionary''. The punishment required placing a wooden peg (of the sort used for tents or for a line for cavalry horses; "picket" etc. were originally alternative names for such pegs) in the ground with the exposed end facing upward. The malefactor was typically a private soldier who had disobeyed orders. One wrist was sus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Picquet
François Picquet (; 4 December 1708 – 15 July 1781) was a French Sulpician priest who emigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1734. Early life Picquet was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, on 4 December 1708, the son of André Picquet and Marie-Philippe Berthet. In 1728 he entered the seminary of Lyons, where he was ordained deacon in 1731. At the Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Issy-les-Moulineaux) in Paris, after winning his doctorate at the Sorbonne, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1734, and became a Sulpician.Fournet, Pierre Auguste. "François Picquet." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 15 January 2018 Canada Picquet arrived in Montreal in 1734. He served the local parish for five years while studying Indian languages and cus ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet De La Motte
Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte,In the 18th century, spelling could vary and the name is sometimes spelt "Piquet" and "La Mothe" also known as La Motte-Picquet (born 1 November 1720 in Rennes; died 10 June 1791 in Brest) was a French Navy officer and admiral. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and took part in 34 campaigns. He fought in the Seven Years' War and in the Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War, earning the ranks of Commandeur in the Order of Saint Louis in 1780, and of Grand Cross in 1784. He died during the French Revolution. Biography Early life La Motte-Picquet joined the Gardes de la Marine in Brest on 11 July 1735,Levot, p. 127 then aged 15. Two years later, he served on the frigate ''Vénus'' in a campaign against the Barbary corsairs of Salé.Hennequin, p.361 On 1 January 1743, he rose to ''sous-brigadier des gardes de la marine'', and then to ''aide d'artillerie'' on 10 December, after serving in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimé Picquet Du Boisguy
Aimé Casimir Marie Picquet, chevalier du Boisguy, sometimes spelt Bois-Guy, (15 March 1776 – 25 October 1839), was a Breton chouan general during the French Revolution. He was nicknamed "the little general" by his men due to his youth. Still a child at the outbreak of the Revolution, he signalled his precocity to fight on the Royalist side, joining the Breton Association at 15 and becoming aide de camp to La Rouërie. At 17 he was made leader of the chouannerie in the pays de Fougères, and a general at 19. Boisguy made the north-east of the Ille-et-Vilaine one of the most active areas of the Breton chouannerie, and showed himself an excellent tactician. Rarely beaten, the chouans there were among the best organised and best disciplined. Fighting in uniform from the end of 1795 and made up of elite troops, even so they suffered from a lack of cavalry and a near-total lack of artillery. The Republicans had to raise major forces to defeat them, and then only with difficulty. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Picquet
Louisa Picquet (c. 1829, Columbia, South Carolina – August 11, 1896, New Richmond, Ohio) was an African American born into slavery. Her slave narrative, ''Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life,'' was published in 1861.The narrative, written by abolitionist pastor Hiram Mattison, details Picquet's experiences with subjects like sexual violence, Christianity, and colorism. By producing the narrative, Mattison and Picquet hoped to raise enough money to buy Picquet's mother out of slavery. Personal life Louisa Picquet was born on a plantation in Lexington County, South Carolina. Picquet's master, John Randolph, sold Picquet and her mother to David R. Cook, who fled to Mobile, Alabama with his slaves after getting into trouble with creditors. In Mobile, Louisa performed domestic duties for Thomas M. English, who owned the house where Cook was boarding. When Cook defaulted on his debts, Picquet was sold at auction to John Williams in New Orlean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Picquet
Christian Lamothe (born 1952 in Paris), better known with his pseudonym Christian Picquet, is a French activist and politician. He is the leader of the new Unitary Left party. Picquet joined the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) in 1968, but left the party in 1971 to join a smaller internationalist communist party. He rejoined the LCR in 1980 and was elected to the LCR's Politburo in 1984. As a member of the Politburo, he was responsible for the party's relations with other left-wing parties in France, and he developed the LCR's first relations with the larger French Communist Party (PCF). Picquet was a member of the "Unir" movement within the LCR, which favoured at first close ties with other left-wing parties such as the French Communist Party rather than far left parties, before calling on the creation of a common party of the left with the PCF. This faction, known as ''Unir'' was a minority faction within the LCR and disappeared with the creation of the New Anticapitalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Motte-Picquet (other)
La Motte-Picquet, LaMotte-Picquet, laMotte-Picquet, la Motte-Picquet, Lamotte-Picquet, or ''variation'', may refer to: * Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720-1791, aka ''la Motte-Piquet''), 18th-century admiral * French ship La Motte-Picquet, a list of ships of the French Navy named after the admiral ** French frigate ''La Motte-Picquet'' (D 645), a French Navy ''F70 type'' anti-submarine frigate ** French cruiser ''La Motte-Picquet'', a French Navy ''Duguay-Trouin''-class light cruiser launched in 1924 ** La Motte-Picquet-class cruiser, a cancelled pre-WW1 French Navy cruiser class * La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle, a subway station of the Paris Métro ** Avenue de la Motte-Picquet, the street that the subway station is named after See also * Picquet (other) * Lamotte (other) * Motte (other) * * * * Piquette (other) * Piquet (other) * Picket (other) * Pickett (other) Pickett is a surname. Pickett m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picket (other)
Picket may refer to: * Snow picket, a climbing tool * Picket fence, a type of fence * Screw picket, a tethering device * Picket line, to tether horses *"Picket line" is also used in picketing, a form of protest **See also: " Crossing the picket line" * Picket (military), a soldier or small unit placed ahead of the main formation ** Radar picket, a radar equipped vehicle on picket duty * Picket boat, a small military boat * Picket (punishment), a 16th and 17th century military punishment * Picket, a fairy chess piece * The Flying Pickets, a British a cappella vocal group * Picket (climbing) Places * Picket Hill * Picket Piece * Picket Post, a road junction and service area in the New Forest National Park * Picket Range, a small, extremely rugged subrange of the North Cascades * Picket Seamount * Picket Twenty See also * Picket fence (other) * Pickett (other) * Picquet (other), an alternative spelling for picket but usually only in an historical context ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickett (other)
Pickett is a surname. Pickett may also refer to a place in the United States: * Pickett, Kentucky * Pickett, Oklahoma *Pickett, Wisconsin *Pickett County, Tennessee *Fort Pickett, Virginia See also * Picket (other) * Picquet (other) Picquet may refer to: An alternative spelling for ''Picket'' * Picquet (military), a small temporary military post closer to the enemy than the main formation; or a group of soldiers detailed for a specific duty (e.g., fire picquet) * Picquet (pun ... * Piquet (other) * Piquette (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piquet (other)
Piquet is a card game. Piquet may also refer to: People *Georges Jules Piquet (fl. 1880s), French Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic *Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes (1729-1786) French aristocrat * Laurence Piquet (fl. 1980s-present), French female television personality *Nelson Piquet (born 1952), Brazilian Formula One driver *Nelson Piquet Jr. (born 1985), Brazilian race car driver *Pedro Piquet (born 1998), Brazilian race car driver * René-Émile Piquet (born 1932), French politician Sports * Piquet Racing (fl. 1992), a British Formula 3000 racing team set up by Nelson Piquet and Nigel Stepney *Piquet GP (2007-2009; formerly ''Minardi Piquet Sports'') motorsports team, created from the merger of ''Piquet Sports'' (founded 2000) and ''GP Racing'' (founded 1997) * Piquet Sports (2000-2007) motorsports team founded by Nelson Piquet Sr., that merged in 2007 into ''Piquet GP'' Other uses * Alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
