Requêté is a French word meaning a hunting call. It was also the name of the soldiers who have fought for the Spanish Carlist movement since the First Carlist War of 1839.
The Carlists were a very traditional ultra-conservative Catholic Party and to some degree they were the shock troops of Catholicism. Priests accompanied requêté battalions into combat in the Sanish Civil War. The requêté were relatively well trained by SCW standards and formed the assault groups of the Nationalist armies. Eventually the Requêté were subsumed into the fascist Falange and their leaders driven into exile.
As a militia they wore a variety of costumes but were distinguished by a red beret with yellow tassle and their brightly coloured Navarre (a region of central northern Spain) blankets.
Carlism died out in 1975 when Spain became a modern South European country.
These figures were sculpted by Paul Hicks for Anglian Miniatures and are now marketed by Empress.