But the fusileers had driven the French over the heights before any assistance reached them, and Beresford was enabled to form a fresh line upon the hill, parallel to that by which Soult had made his attack in the morning.
The Madras fusileers were armed with the Enfield rifle, and consequently they had to bear the brunt of the attack.
The Fusileers led, with two field-pieces in their rear.
Maude raked the hostile cannon, which stood in a salient bend of the river: while the Fusileers advanced in skirmishing order, enraged at the fall of gallant Major Renaud, whose thigh had been broken early in the day.
The Fusileers and the Seventy-eighth Highlanders struggled through the swamps on the right.
At nine in the morning of the fifteenth up came the English; Maude and his battery leading the way; with the Fusileers and the sharpshooters of the Sixty-fourth close at his heels.
As soon as the enemy's flank was completely exposed to the English attack, our troops halted, faced, and advanced in the order wherein they found themselves, covered by two companies of the Fusileers extended as skirmishers.
Hepzibah Muggs is a widow; a stranger has purchased the stock of West India goods, and the Bluetown Fusileers are commanded by the first lieutenant.
In this labor our indefatigablefusileers did them little damage.
Royal Welsh Fusileers now claim the honour, and Colonel Lysons, who was in the boat along with Lieutenant Drew, asserts that he was the first man to spring on shore.
The 7th Fusileers had to run the gauntlet of a large body of the enemy, whom they drove back à la fourchette.
By eleven o'clock, the Rifles and Fusileers had been inspected, and were marching from the left of the line, along the front of the other regiments, towards the right.
In September, 1864, the city saw the departure of six companies of the Scotch Fusileers and other military.
Kingsford tells how Prince Edward (Duke of Kent)[2] was in command of the Seventh Fusileers at Quebec when a threatened mutiny was suppressed.
Before Oudenarde, after that chance rencontre with Captain von Holtz at Brussels, a space of more than a year elapsed, during which the captain of Jesuits and the captain of Webb's Fusileerswere thrown very much together.
The sailors showed some humanity, but the marine-fusileers were always the same bandits as in the days of May, and the crew was often obliged to tear the prisoners from them.
One company of the Royal Fusileers came out of the fight commanded by a corporal; every officer and sergeant had been killed.
It was rumoured that alarming symptoms had appeared in other regiments, and particularly that a body of fusileers which lay at Harwich was likely to imitate the example set at Ipswich.
There he was soon joined by a detachment of two hundred fusileers whom Mackay had sent forward to secure the pass.
The Guides behaved admirably, so did the Fusileersas usual.
Headquarters, 75th, Queen's, and remainder of 9th Lancers; the heavy guns and 2d Fusileers are only a short way behind.
The 1st Fusileers were as usual "to the fore," and did well equally as usual.
With the news of the outbreak come orders to the 1st European Fusileers to move down to Umbala, on the route to Delhi.
I am trying to get into the 1st European regiment, now stationed at Umbala, who have just been styled Fusileers for their distinguished service.
I once heard one of the Fusileers say, 'Whenever I sees Captain Hodson go out, I always prays for him, for he is sure to be in danger.
Young Ellis of the 1st Fusileers is down with cholera, poor boy; and Colonel Welchman dangerously ill and in great agony.
The 1st European Bengal Fusileers was the most tried, and suffered out of all proportion, save in the especial case of the Engineers, of whom ten, out of the seventeen engaged, have been killed or wounded.
A few French fusileers had fallen, half a dozen had been taken prisoners, and the others had fled in wild disorder to the forest.
The leader shook his fist, the fusileerscocked their guns.
Bacon marched across the green with a file of fusileers on either side, and reached the corner of the State House.
The emperor sent for thefusileers of the guard and placed them under General Mouton's orders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fusileers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
