biography
pronunciation:
[meeka]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1677–1706)
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| biography:
| Piedmontese soldier, born in Sagliano, Piedmont, NW Italy. He joined the Corps of Miners, and during the War of the Spanish Succession he saved Turin from French siege by blowing up the tunnel which gave access to the city. He died in the process. |
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