PIETRO See also:

• PIETRO MICCA

MICCA  , Piedmontese soldier (d . 1706), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Andorno, and achieved fame by his See also:

• DEATH

death in the See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of See also:

• TURIN

Turin . During the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French in 1706 a party of the besiegers had succeeded in penetrating by surprise into the See also:

• MOAT

moat of the fortress on the See also:

• NIGHT

night of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 29–30, and would undoubtedly have captured it had not See also:

• MICCA, PIETRO

Micca, a soldier in the See also:

• ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers, fired a mine, with the result that they were blown into the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air and the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the force driven back with heavy losses . Micca's heroism has been the subject of poems, plays and romances . But, according to See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Giuseppe Solaro della Margherita, the See also:

• COMMANDER

commander of the Turin See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, it was through a miscalculation of the See also:

• PACE (through O. Fr. pas, from Lat. passus, step, properly the stretch of the leg in walking, from pandere, to stretch)
• PACE, RICHARD (c. 1482-1536)

pace of the fuse. and not by deliberate See also:

• INTENT (from Lat. intend ere, to stretch out, extend, particularly in the phrase intendere animum, to turn one's mind to, purpose)

intent, that he sacrificed his See also:

• LIFE

life . See A . Manno Pietro Micca ed it generale See also:

• CONTE

conte Solaro Bella Margherita (Turin, 1883) .