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An infantryman armed with a form of flintlock musket
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A soldier in any of several regiments that once fought with such weapons
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A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers
Examples of fusiliers in a Sentence
Certain regiments are styled grenadiers and fusiliers.
He was given the colonelcy of the 10th (Lancashire Fusiliers), but was too late to take part in the battle of Culloden.
Wolseley asked for the help of white troops, and the 2nd battalion Rifle Brigade, the 23rd Fusiliers and 42nd Highlanders were despatched.
Fusiliers hover in shoals just off the reef, and butterfly fish flit between the corals.
A roaming herd of Bumphead parrotfish can be seen along the deeper edge, with shoaling fusiliers in the shallows.
Abraham BOLD, formerly sergeant in the 7th fusiliers, a warrior of thirteen battles and a hundred skirmishes, died recently in Huddersfield.
Thus Superintendent John McInnes, a former sergeant in the 2nd Battalion Scots Fusiliers found himself in charge of the Ongar Division.
The Fusiliers attack had been repulsed with many casualties.