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- noun Plural form of
fusileer .
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Examples
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The Welsh fusileers were the first to mount the hill.
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The fortifications are of barbarian architecture; a ditch, with a simple rampart, partly of earth, partly of brick, flanked here and there with little towers, which serve neither for support nor resistance, and which contain not above seven or eight fusileers.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 Various
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Colonel Prescott; while a column of the enemy was advancing on our left, on the shore of Mystic river, with an evident intention of turning our left wing, and that veteran and most excellent regiment of Welsh fusileers, so distinguished for its gallant conduct in the battle of
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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After a couple of hours 'bombardment, the forts of San Andrés and San Eugenio were demolished, the artillery overturned, and the defenders' fusileers and sappers were killed.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Although Sir Ewan Dhu was thus engaged on the side of James, his second son was a captain in the Scottish fusileers, and served under Mackay in the ranks of Government.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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The mitrailleuses were adding their tac-tac to the cracks of the fusileers.
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There are several classes of infantrymen, a distinction being made between the sharpshooters, and some of the others, variously known as grenadiers, musketeers and fusileers.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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"The fusileers -- they are sticking their bayonets into them."
The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Ralph Connor 1898
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When the twelve fusileers advanced placing themselves in a horizontal line eight yards distant, all of them aiming toward her heart, she appeared to wake up.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Off in one corner the priest prayed with the women, his prayers interrupted by screams of anguish and by crying children, while the fusileers on the roof explored the horizon until word came that the sea birds of prey had sailed away.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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