He dines here nearly every day, and plays piquet with papa all the evening.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
There was a small piquet of the enemy stationed at the entrance of the creek by which it was intended to effect our landing.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
Withdrawing the troops, company by company, from behind the bank, General Keane stationed them in the village of huts, by which means the high road was abandoned to the protection of a piquet, and the left of the army covered by a large chateau.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig