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de Meuron

[< Col. A. de Meuron, commander of a Swiss-German regiment in the service of Great Britain]
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— Hist.

See 1938 quote.

See: Meuron

Quotations

1822
Mr. Halkett knows nothing of any regular tariff formed, as the de Meurons say, by the late Earl of Selkirk, to regulate the prices of goods and grain in the colony.
1938
. . . the De Meurons, a regiment of Swiss and German mercenaries raised during the Napoleonic Wars. They were taken to Canada during the Anglo-American War of 1812, and were disbanded in 1816. Lord Selkirk took 140 of them for his [Red River] colony in 1818.
1954
. . . Selkirk had engaged a private army of Swiss mercenary troops, de Meurons, under a Captain D'Orsonnens.