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FUSILIER , originally (in See also:French about 167o, in See also:English about 168o) the name of a"soldier armed with a See also:light flintlock See also:musket called the fusil; now a regimental designation. Various forms of flintlock small arms had been used in warfare since the middleof the 16th See also:century. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the English See also:civil See also:war (1642—1652) the See also:term " firelock " was usually employed to distinguish these weapons from the more See also:common matchlock musket. The See also:special value of the firelock in armies of the 17th century See also:lay in the fact that the See also:artillery of the time used open See also:powder barrels for the service of the guns, making it unsafe to allow lighted matches in the muskets of the escort. Further, a military escort was required, not only for the See also:protection, but also for the surveillance of the artillerymen of those days. Companies of " firelocks " were therefore organized for these duties, and out of these companies See also:grew the " fusiliers " who were employed in the same way in the See also:wars of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. In the latter See also:part of the See also:Thirty Years' War (1643) fusiliers were simply mounted troops armed with the fusil, as See also:carabiniers were with the See also:carbine. But the escort companies of artillery came to be known by the name shortly afterwards, and the See also:regiment of French Royal Fusiliers, organized in 1671 by See also:Vauban, was considered the See also:model for See also:Europe. The See also:general See also:adoption of the flintlock musket and the suppression of the See also:pike in the armies of Europe put an end to the See also:original special duties of fusiliers, and they were subsequently employed to a large extent in light See also:infantry See also:work, perhaps on See also:account of the greater individual aptitude for detached duties naturally shown by soldiers who had never been restricted to a fixed and unchangeable See also:place in the See also:line of See also:battle. The See also:senior fusilier regiment in the See also:British service, the (7th) Royal Fusiliers (See also:City of See also:London Regiment), was formed on the French model in 1685; the 5th See also:foot (now See also:Northumberland Fusiliers), senior to the 7th in the See also:army, was not at that time a fusilier regiment. The distinctive See also:head-See also:dress of fusiliers in the British service is a See also:fur cap, generally resembling, but smaller than and different in details from, that of the Foot See also:Guards.
In See also:Germany the name " fusilier " is See also:borne by certain infantry regiments and by one See also:battalion in each See also:grenadier regiment.
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