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Definition of Fusillade

Fusillade
Fusillade Fu"sil*lade", n. [F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See Fusil a firelock.] (Mil.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Fusillade
Fusillade Fu"sil*lade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fusillader; p. pr. & vb. n. Fusillading.] To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

Meaning of Fusillade from wikipedia

- Look up fusillade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fusillade is the simultaneous and continuous firing of a group of firearms on command. It stems...
- Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common...
- neighborhood. Five white men in a car led the charge but were killed by a fusillade of gunfire before they had traveled one block. Overwhelmed by the sheer...
- The Fusillade de Fourmies was an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. Government troops fired on a peaceful...
- de Grenoble. Fontaine: quatre blessés par balles lors d'une nouvelle fusillade". Sudouest (in French). 2 May 2025. Retrieved 2 May 2025. Pinel-Fereol...
- Fusillade Mountain (8,755 feet (2,669 m)) is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Fusillade Mountain lies immediately...
- 225 p. Jean Batou, Quand l'esprit de Genève s'embrase. Au-delà de la fusillade du 9 novembre 1932, Lausanne, Éditions d'en bas, 2012, 527 p. « Genève :...
- so that they were difficult to target. Nevertheless, while the first fusillade from the machine guns was ineffective due to the range, a second round...
- March 2014. Dan Beaumont ARCHIVES (3 December 2011). "Denis Lortie " fusillade au Parlement de Québec ", SRC, 8 mai 1984". Archived from the original...
- his forces vulnerable to Admiral Nelson, immediately ordered a cannon fusillade against Malta. The French soldiers disembarked in Malta at seven points...