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' Blanquet' was an Indian Scout in the United States Army and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
An Apache born in Arizona, Blanquet served as a scout for General George Crook during the Apache Wars. For his participation in campaigns through the winter of 1872–1873, he was awarded the Medal of Honor two years later, on April 12, 1875.
Blanquet's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
Usage examples of "blanquet".
When Blanquet, who was the greatest peon de brega who ever lived, worked under the orders of Granero he told me that on the day of Manolo Granero’s death, when they stopped in the chapel on the way to the ring, the odor of death was so strong on Manolo that it almost made Blanquet sick.
But Juan Luis was dead white, Blanquet told me, and he, Blanquet, spoke to him saying, ‘Thou also?
But that same night Blanquet who had been under the orders of Joselito when he too was killed told Finito about it at Fornos, and Finito asked Juan Luis de la Rosa and he would say nothing.
This man Blanquet was a man of extreme seriousness and furthermore very devout.
But Blanquet was serious and very quiet and completely incapable of telling an untruth.