 Mushrooming and loosely-organized groups of Juventud engaged in military drills; they also got increasingly involved in street clashes with hit-squads related to Left-wing politics, especially the Radicals and the Anarchists.In the early 1900s loose Carlist groups in Catalonia referred to themselves as "requeté", a name that dates back the crack battalion of Navarre in the First Carlist War, distinguished by general Zumalacarregui for their gallantry.Also some correspondents of Traditionalist press used the term as their pen-name.